Drawing Impairment Predicts Mortality in Severe COPD: A Naïve Approach to COPD Mortality Prediction

摘要

Antonelli-Incalzi et aln1 suggest that drawing ability on a singlenneuropsychological measure (the copying drawings with land-nmarks test) is a reliable predictor of mortality among COPDnpatients. It appears that the conclusions presented are flawed forna number of reasons.