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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 prescribed medication. Groups were compared via ANOVA. Results:Data of 305 patients (62±7 years, 66% men) were analysed. In 59.1% of visits, the prescribed medication conformed to the respective valid GOLD-guideline. Patients with very severe COPD were most likely to receive pharmacotherapy in compliance with guidelines. Step-ups and step-downs in risk group, requiring escalation, or de-escalation of pharmacotherapy, were noticed in 24 and 43 follow-up visits, respectively. Step-ups were adequately implemented in 4 (16.7%) and step-downs in six cases (14.0%). Conclusion:The compliance of COPD-pharmacotherapy with GOLD-guidelines is suboptimal, especially in lower risk groups. The high rates of missed out treatment-adjustments suggest that the familiarity of physicians with guidelines leaves room for improvement.

SUBMITTER: Grewe FA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7105357 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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

Grewe Fabian A FA   Sievi Noriane A NA   Bradicich Matteo M   Roeder Maurice M   Brack Thomas T   Brutsche Martin H MH   Frey Martin M   Irani Sarosh S   Leuppi Jörg D JD   Thurnheer Robert R   Clarenbach Christian F CF   Kohler Malcolm M  

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 20200326


<h4>Objective</h4>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.<h4>Methods</h4>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  ...[more]

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