Compliance of Pharmacotherapy with GOLD Guidelines: A Longitudinal Study in Patients with COPD
| Autor: | Christian F. Clarenbach, Matteo Bradicich, Martin Brutsche, Malcolm Kohler, Fabian A Grewe, Maurice Roeder, Thomas Brack, Noriane A. Sievi, Martin Frey, Sarosh R. Irani, Robert Thurnheer, Jörg D. Leuppi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Longitudinal study
medicine.medical_specialty COPD business.industry General Medicine Guideline medicine.disease Lower risk Obstructive lung disease 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pharmacotherapy 030228 respiratory system Emergency medicine medicine Outpatient clinic 030212 general & internal medicine business Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. 15:627-635 |
| ISSN: | 1178-2005 |
| DOI: | 10.2147/copd.s240444 |
| Popis: | 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. Keywords: Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease guidelines; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; guideline-compliance. |
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