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Chapron, Anthony; Andres, Emilie; Fiquet, Laure; Pelé, Fabienne; Allory, Emmanuel; Le Pabic, Estelle; Veislinger, Aurélie; Le Guillou, Lisa; Guillot, Stéphanie; Laviolle, Bruno; Jouneau, Stéphane
British journal of general practice, 12/2023, Volume: 73, Issue: 737Journal Article
Worldwide, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remains largely underdiagnosed. To assess whether the use of Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) questions and COPD coordination, either alone or combined, would detect new COPD cases in primary care. GPs in Brittany, France, systematically enrolled patients aged 40-80 years over a 4-month period in this French multicentre cluster randomised controlled study. GPs were randomly allocated to one of four groups: control (standard of care), GOLD questions (adapted from symptoms and risk factors identified by GOLD), COPD coordination, and GOLD questions with COPD coordination. New cases of COPD were those confirmed by spirometry: post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 second over forced vital capacity of <0.7. In total, 11 430 consultations were conducted by 47 GPs, who enrolled 3162 patients who did not have prior diagnosed asthma or COPD. Among these, 802 (25%) were enrolled in the control, 820 (26%) in the GOLD questions, 802 (25%) in the COPD coordination, and 738 (23%) in the GOLD questions with COPD coordination groups. In the control group, COPD was not evoked, and no spirometry was prescribed. All new cases of COPD diagnosed ( = 24, 0.8%) were in the intervention groups, representing 6.8% of patients who performed spirometry. Statistically significantly more new cases of COPD were detected with COPD coordination ( = 0.01). Interventions that can be easily implemented, such as the GOLD questions and COPD coordination, can identify new cases of COPD. Studies are needed to identify the most appropriate case-finding strategies for GPs to detect COPD in primary care for each country.
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