Validation d'un questionnaire d'évaluation de l'exacerbation dans la BPCOÂ : l'Exascore

The “current status” Exascore questionnaire satisfies psychometric quality criteria while being usable in clinical practice. It helps in diagnosing acute exacerbations and assessing their intensity. Further studies will need to test the adequacy of proposed thresholds, the factorial structure of the score in healthcare professionals and patients' relatives, and its predictive power.