Treatment of stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: protocol for a systematic review and evidence map.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease, usually caused by tobacco smoking, but other important risk factors include exposures to combustion products of biomass fuels and environmental pollution. The introduction of several new (combination) inhaler therapies, increasing uncertainty about the role of inhaled corticosteroids and a rapid proliferation of the literature on management of stable COPD in general, call for novel ways of evidence synthesis in this area. A systematic review and evidence map can provide the basis for shared decision-making tools and help to establish a future research agenda.

Methods and analysis

This systematic review will follow an umbrella systematic review design (also called overview of reviews). We

SUBMITTER: Dobler CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6501947 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature