Classification of COPD patients and compliance to recommended treatment in Greece according to GOLD 2017 report: the RELICO study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a multifactorial clinical condition, characterized by chronic progressive (or worsening) respiratory symptoms, structural pulmonary abnormalities, and impaired lung function, and is often accompanied by multiple, clinically significant comorbid disorders. In 2017, the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) issued a new report on COPD prevention, diagnosis and management, aiming at personalizing the maintenance therapeutic approach of the stable disease, based on the patients' symptoms and history of exacerbations (ABCD assessment approach). Our objective was to evaluate the implementation of GOLD suggestions in everyday clinical practice in Greece.

Methods

This was a cross-sectional observation

SUBMITTER: Tzanakis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8268415 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature