Interventions with Mortality Benefit in COPD

1. Smoking Cessation
2. Long-term Oxygen therapy (>15 hours per day)
3. Lung volume reduction surgery in certain subsets of COPD patients (Emphysema)
4. Pulmonary Rehabilitation AFTER a COPD exacerbation

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