COPDguidelinesNICEThe National Institute for Clinical Excellence guidelines on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, published in March this year, provide a new way of thinking about the management of the disease. This article highlights the key areas and recommendations made by the guidelines.Smith...
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Asymptomatic COPD and NICE guidelines. The continuing discrepancy between national and international guidance is unhelpful for patients, doctors, policy makers, and researchers because the Globa... G Parkes - 《British Journal of General Practice the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners...
Do elderly COPD patients receive optimum care as outlined by NICE guidelines? Age & AgeingPigolkina EIMay HM
The UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has produced a 2010 partial update of its original 2004 Guidelines on COPD management. The definition of airflow obstruction has been altered to a post-bronchodilator FEV/FVC ratio 80%) must be symptomatic for a diagnosis of ...
(TSDs) on evidence synthesis make recommendations for preparing, reviewing, and appraising submissions to NICE [12]. However, the TSDs do not attempt to recommend the form that the analysis must take or the methods to be used. Any methods fulfilling the required properties are valid; the ...
A gap exists between guidelines and real-world clinical practice for the management and treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Although this has narrowed in the last decade, there is room for improvement in detection rates, treatment
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professional development and recognition of the need to screen patients for this disease. Their implementation and effect would overlap, and therefore it was not possible to ascribe improvements to any single initiative. It is not yet known whether setting clearer guidelines for appropriate management ...
Contrastingly, the Nippon COPD Epidemiology (NICE) study3 reported that 10.9% of the population aged ≥40 years had airflow obstruction and that the estimated prevalence of COPD in Japan is 8.6%, after excluding patients with asthma-related airflow obstruction. Further, among the participants with...