Desktop Helper No. 8 - Improving care for women with COPD: Guidance for primary care

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This 2-page Desktop Helper aims to be a practical guide for clinicians. 

The scope of global primary care includes not only disease management, but also prevention and early risk identification, finding those people in the community who need special attention, diagnosis, treatment and management. One such challenge is to identify early, diagnose, and treat women with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

References: available here

Authors: Dr Ioanna Tsiligianni, Dr Miguel Román-Rodríguez

Reviewers: Dr Catalina Panaitescu, Dr Karin Lisspers, Dr Jaime Correia de Sousa

Editor: Professor Hilary Pinnock

Funding: Novartis Pharma AG funded the literature review, typesetting, printing and associated costs. They took no part in drafting the Desktop Helper

Date published: January 2018