The GOLD initiative 2011: a change of paradigm?

Arch Bronconeumol. 2012 Aug;48(8):286-9. doi: 10.1016/j.arbres.2012.02.018. Epub 2012 Apr 24.
[Article in English, Spanish]

Abstract

Ten years after the publication of the first GOLD strategy (Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of COPD) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the new revision published on the GOLD website at the end of 2011 represents a significant change in the diagnostic approach, clinical evaluation and therapeutic treatment of the disease. This revision debates not only the most significant aspects, which remain relatively intact, but also, and in particular, those that have been substantially modified compared with the GOLD revision from 2006.

MeSH terms

  • Air Pollution, Indoor / adverse effects
  • Comorbidity
  • Consensus Development Conferences as Topic*
  • Disease Management*
  • Goals
  • Health Promotion
  • Humans
  • International Cooperation
  • Oxygen Inhalation Therapy
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / classification
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / prevention & control*
  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / therapy
  • Respiration, Artificial
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / etiology
  • Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy
  • Risk
  • Severity of Illness Index
  • Smoking Prevention
  • Spirometry