The effect of changes to GOLD severity stage on long term morbidity and mortality in COPD

Background The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) severity stage classifies Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) into groups based on symptoms, exacerbations and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV 1 ). This allows patients to change to less severe COPD sta...

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Published in:	Respiratory research Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 249 - 10
Main Authors:	Flynn, Robert W. V., MacDonald, Thomas M., Chalmers, James D., Schembri, Stuart
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 12.12.2018 BioMed Central Ltd Nature Publishing Group BMC
Subjects:	Aged Analysis Chronic obstructive lung disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Classification Clinical trials Cohort Studies Dyspnea Fatalities Female Follow-Up Studies Forced Expiratory Volume - physiology Global Health - trends Global initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease (GOLD) Gold Health aspects Humans Longitudinal Studies Lung diseases Male Medical research Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Morbidity Morbidity - trends Mortality Mortality - trends Obstructive lung disease Patients Pneumology/Respiratory System Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - mortality Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology Respiration Respiratory Function Tests - mortality Respiratory Function Tests - trends Scotland - epidemiology Severity of Illness Index Spirometry - mortality Spirometry - trends Studies Time dependence Scotland Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Global initiative for chronic obstructive lung disease (GOLD) Mortality Morbidity
ISSN:	1465-993X, 1465-9921, 1465-993X
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