Primary Care COPD Patients Compared with Large Pharmaceutically-Sponsored COPD Studies : An UNLOCK Validation Study
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...Each respiratory unit was asked to consecutively enroll a maximum of ten patients with GOLD grade III COPD and five patients with GOLD grade IV COPD(1) during the period from May 12, 2011 to March 28, 2012, approximately matching the distribution of severe and very severe COPD in the general population.(19,20) The only exclusion criterion was an inability to complete the study on language grounds....
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...We used the St Georges Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) which is designed to measure health- related quality of life in patients with asthma and COPD [34]....
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...Selection for large COPD studies The proportion of patients from primary care that would be eligible to be included in the LPCS ranged from 17% (TRISTAN trial) to 42% (ECLIPSE and UPLIFT study) (Table 7)....
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...In addition to five large trials, we decided to include the ECLIPSE cohort study as well, because this is an important observational study often cited in guidelines, especially with regard to exacerbation frequency patterns....
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...Exacerbation data Individual datasets: UNLOCK studies reporting exacerbation data were compared with baseline data of the ISOLDE, TRISTAN, TORCH, UPLIFT and ECLIPSE studies (Table 3)....
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...The proportion of primary care patients eligible for inclusion in LPCS ranged from 17% (TRISTAN) to 42% (ECLIPSE, UPLIFT)....
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...Overall mean MRC scores were similar in the UNLOCK studies compared to ECLIPSE: 2.1 (0.8) and 2.7 (1.1), respectively....
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