Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) self‐management
interventions should be structured but personalised and often multi‐component, with goals …

Background People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at increased
risk of pneumococcal disease, especially pneumonia, as well as acute exacerbations with …

This Executive Summary of the Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and
Prevention of COPD, Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2017 …

Importance Outcomes after exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
requiring acute noninvasive ventilation (NIV) are poor and there are few treatments to …

This document provides clinical recommendations for treatment of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. Comprehensive evidence syntheses, including …

Background Present treatment strategies to stratify exacerbation risk in patients with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rely on a history of two or more events in the …

We welcome the report by the SPIROMICS investigators in The Lancet Respiratory
Medicine, 1 repeating our 2010 ECLIPSE analysis2 describing exacerbations in chronic …

Background and objective The aim of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Guidelines (Guidelines)
is to provide evidence‐based recommendations for the practice of pulmonary rehabilitation …

Rationale: Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) increase
the risk of death and drive healthcare costs, but whether they accelerate loss of lung function …

This document provides clinical recommendations for the prevention of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations. It represents a collaborative effort between the …