In 2012 we received a grant from the Veterans Health Administration Office of Specialty Care entitled, "Patient-Centered Model for the Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." The grant's goals were to enhance the recognition and diagnosis of COPD and implement a Pa…
The COPD Primer begins with an examination of what COPD is; it is really a syndrome, a constellation of historical features and clinical, physiologic, and radiographic findings. However, those elements come together in many different ways to create multiple different COPD phenot…
A COPD Primer
by Panos, Ralph, Eschenbacher, William
fromOnline access: De Gruyter De Gruyter Open Books
COPD Primer is a practical overview of COPD management from recognition and diagnosis to end of life care. We describe the identification of airflow obstruction by spirometry and COPD's historical, physical examination, and radiographic findings, natural history, phenotypes, sys…
In 2012 we received a grant from the Veterans Health Administration Office of Specialty Care entitled, "Patient-Centered Model for the Management of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease." The grant's goals were to enhance the recognition and diagnosis of COPD and implement a Pa…