Primary Care Physicians need Guidance on Managing COPD

A new study outlined the state of 16 million COPD patients, their treatments and what primary care physicians need to know about them in the United States. “COPD Population in U.S. Primary Care: Data from the Optimum Patient Care DARTNet Research Database and the Advancing the Patient Experience in COPD Registry,” examined the high exacerbation, symptom and treatment burdens experienced by 17,192 COPD patients across five states. Health experts published the COPD National Action Plan and created the Advancing the Patient Experience in COPD, known as APEX-COPD, the first primary care health system-based COPD registry in the United States, the study said.