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Why is it important?

The new COPD Guidelines are scientific grounded but they are missing practicability for the daily work with family physicians. This comment explains the lacks of the guidelines.

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As a GP I have a lot of patients with different illnesses or sums of illnesses to treat. COPD are having round about 5% of a normal GP´s patients, less than other chronic illnesses. The guidelines with a questionnaire and two tables make it difficult and time consuming to follow those recommendations.

Dr Thomas Hausen
Dr.med.Thomas Hausen Gp and Sportsmedicine

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This page is a summary of: Neue GOLD-Leitlinie zur Therapie der COPD, Pneumologie, December 2012, Thieme Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1326007.
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