Article
Moving towards patient-centered medicine for COPD management: multidimensional approaches versus phenotype-based medicine--a critical view.
COPD - 1 Sept 2014
Lopez-Campos Jose Luis, Bustamante Víctor, Muñoz Xavier, Barreiro Esther
Abstract excerpt
For decades, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been considered a relentlessly progressive disease in which the deterioration of lung function is associated with an increase in symptoms, interrupted only by periods of exacerbation. However, this paradigm of COPD severity based on FEV1 has been challenged by currently available evidence. So far, three main approaches, though with contradictory...
Topics
- Disease Management
- Forced Expiratory Volume
- Humans
- Patient-Centered Care
- Phenotype
- Precision Medicine
- Prognosis
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Severity of Illness Index