Modification of the GOLD recommendations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to broaden their usage in Turkey
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Mecit Süerdem; Hakan Günen; Mehmet Polatli; Esra Uzaslan; Oguz Kilinc
- Source
- Subject
- Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
Turkey
Turkish
Pulmonary disease
Disease
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Immunology and Allergy
030212 general & internal medicine
Disease management (health)
Intensive care medicine
Pulmonologists
COPD
business.industry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
medicine.disease
language.human_language
Obstructive lung disease
Clinical Practice
030228 respiratory system
Practice Guidelines as Topic
language
Physical therapy
business
Delivery of Health Care
- Language
- English
Despite the introduction of numerous national and international COPD guidelines designed to provide clinicians with optimal evidence-based disease management strategies, COPD remains an underdiagnosed and poorly treated disease. The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines recommend disease specific diagnosis and management strategies, and they are widely used internationally. In this short report we present the outcomes of a meeting of respiratory experts in Turkey who reviewed the GOLD guidelines and their applicability to the Turkish healthcare system. In particular, we were interested to investigate the possibility of developing a simplified version of the combined assessment model which we believe will be more acceptable to Turkish pulmonologists and will increase its use in everyday clinical practice.