… to explore patients’ perceptions of advanced COPD and the impact of a life-threatening event,
six recurring transition points emerged using qualitative methods to articulate the patients’ …

… There was a significant disparity between subjects’ perception of disease severity and the
degree of severity indicated by an objective breathlessness scale. These results emphasize …

… care for COPD patients often observe how illness severity (eg… research illustrates how COPD
patients' perceptions of their … the medical management of patients with COPD. From a broad …

… We doubt that our findings were severely biased because of overrepresentation of physicians
with a preferential interest in COPD because the proportion of patients with COPD seen by …

… that affect the lives of patients. Our study analysed the degree of concordance between
the patients and their pulmonologists in the perception of the severity of symptoms. A cross-…

… Even though these studies have described fluctuations of COPD symptoms in individuals …
group of COPD patients. This study describes patient perceptions of COPD symptom variability …

… important, especially in severe COPD, given the high number … burden of COPD from the
perspective of patients with severe … conditions, COPD patients weigh the perceived burdens of …

… This article aims to describe and contextualize the experience of living with severe COPD
and has the unique potential to inform health care providers of the potentially unmet needs of …

… severity of COPD and patients' adherence, but it was associated with a better patient's perception
of … In contrast, prior evidence showed that a high exacerbation risk population of COPD …

… very severe stages of the disease, the overall physical activity among COPD patients was …
Our expectation was that COPD patients exercise less than is recommended according to …