Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may incur huge medical expenses, resulting in a heavy socioeconomic burden. A recent study sought to predict the level of healthcare utilization resources.

Healthcare professionals use tools like the GOLD system and the BODE index to evaluate the stage and impact of COPD. While COPD may shorten life span, advances in treatment and management are ...

Medically reviewed by Susan Russell, MDMedically reviewed by Susan Russell, MD The BODE index is a tool that is used by healthcare professionals to predict the mortality rate (death rate) from chronic ...

A new finding suggests that an index may overestimate transplant benefits in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients. According to a research done by American College of Chest Physicians ...

How should we employ multidimensional indices of COPD? Ideally, they should serve to work towards ‘optimal COPD care’, based on the concept that here-and-now goals should be integrated with goals to ...