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©2013 UpToDate ® Print Email Outpatient management of acute exacerbations of COPD * Pseudomonas risk factors:   - Frequent administration of antibiotics (4 or more courses over the past year)   - Recent hospitalization (2 or more days' duration in the past 90 days)   - Isolation of Pseudomonas during a previous hospitalization   - Severe underlying COPD (FEV1 <50 percent predicted) Reproduced with permission from: Sethi, S, Murphy, TF. Acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis: New developments concerning microbiology and pathophysiology--impact on approaches to risk stratification and therapy. Infect Dis Clin N Am 2004; 18:861. Illustration used with permission of Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Inc.