The American Journal of Managed Care

Sedentary Behavior in Patients With COPD Detected Using Novel Questionnaire

This new questionnaire could help physicians more easily detect sedentary behaviors among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which standard questionnaires have had difficulty ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Assessing COPD Using PROs and Exercise Test Outcomes

The assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) now allows for the evaluation of various patient-reported outcomes (PROs); however, these PROs assess different disease features than ...
Medscape

Simple Screening Test for COPD Could Reduce Global Burden of Undiagnosed Disease

Undiagnosed but clinically significant chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be widespread in many low- and middle-income countries, according to a large international study led by ...
clinicaladvisor.com

COPD Assessment Test Submitted to FDA for Drug Development Tool Approval

COPD diagnosis Researchers have proposed that the COPD Assessment Test (CAT) be used as a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clinical outcomes assessment tool. Members of the COPD Biomarker ...
Healio

Genetic risk score plus lung function questionnaire improves COPD prediction

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers evaluated adults without a history of physician-diagnosed COPD. Area under the curve went up with ...
Healio

Questionnaire, peak expiratory flow useful for COPD screening when spirometry unavailable

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This study included adults in Nepal, Peru and Uganda. Discriminative performance improved after adding ...