Danish Quality Assurance Project on Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Outpatient Lung Clinics

Boehringer Ingelheim

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Treatments: Behavioral: Education

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00268866

205.367

Details and patient eligibility

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Danish Quality Assurance Project on Diagnosis and Treatment of COPD in Outpatient Lung Clinics

Full description

Study Hypothesis:

Comparison(s):

none

Sex: All

Ages: 35+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Outpatient with the diagnosis or referral diagnosis of COPD.
• COPD must be the primary reason for this outpatient contact (for both new patients and controls).

Exclusion criteria

• Any co-morbidity that hampers the diagnosis and treatment of COPD in accordance with the COPD guidelines used locally (e.g. malignant disease, dementia or sequelae of apoplexy).
• Asthma without the presence of COPD