... restraints that without doubt are still present in patients with severe COPD at discharge from a hospital-treated exacerbation. However, our results are in line with other studies. In a study on patients ... to those with missing SF-6D, but disease severity did not differ between patients with available and missing scores. In all instruments,missing items were more frequent in women than in men(11% ... full health in EQ-5D was observed in 9% of patients, of whom 92% reported health restraints in SF-6D dimension vitality, 65% in mental health, 71% in phys-ical functioning [22]. And in a study...