An Investigation of the Past 10 Yrs Health Care for Primary Care Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

A Retrospective Epidemiological Study to Map Out Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Describe COPD Health Care in Real-Life Primary Care During the First Ten Years of the 21th Century

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01146392

Acronym

PATHOS

Enrollment

27394

Registered

2010-06-17

Start date

2010-06-30

Completion date

2011-09-30

Last updated

2014-06-18

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Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Keywords

Epidemiological, COPD health care, treatment in primary care

Brief summary

The aim of this study is to describe COPD health care and to assess demographics, concurrent diseases and mortality and the use of pharmaceuticals for a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) population in real life in primary care during the last ten years.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Time perspective

RETROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* COPD diagnosis according to medical records. * Use of drugs prescribed for obstructive lung diseases

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Describe the development of COPD health care structure in primary care.	Data will be extracted from the medical records on one occassion, covering a period of one decade.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Describe the COPD population in primary care with special reference to treatment, co-morbidity and mortality during last decade.	Data will be extracted from the medical records on one occassion, covering a period of one decade.

Countries

Sweden

Outcome results