Compliance of Pharmacotherapy with GOLD Guidelines: A Longitudinal Study in Patients with COPD.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the clinical implementation of pharmacotherapy recommendations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) based on the Global Initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease (GOLD) guidelines, in a longitudinal setting.

Methods

This is a sub-analysis of a prospective, non-interventional cohort study including patients with confirmed mild-to-very-severe COPD from seven pulmonary outpatient clinics in Switzerland. Follow-up visits took place annually for up to 7 years, from October 2010 until December 2016. For each visit, we evaluated the compliance of the prescribed pharmacotherapy with the concurrently valid GOLD guideline. We investigated whether step-ups or step-downs in GOLD stage or risk-group were accompanied by concordant changes in prescri

SUBMITTER: Grewe FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7105357 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature