Respiratory Symptoms Items from the COPD Assessment Test Identify Ever-Smokers with Preserved Lung Function at Higher Risk for Poor Respiratory Outcomes. An Analysis of the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD Study Cohort.
Carlos H MartinezSusan MurrayR Graham BarrEugene BleeckerRussell P BowlerStephanie A ChristensonAlejandro P ComellasChristopher B CooperDavid CouperGerard J CrinerJeffrey L CurtisMark T DransfieldNadia N HanselEric A HoffmanRichard E KannerEric KleerupJerry A KrishnanStephen C LazarusNancy K LeidyWanda O'NealFernando J MartinezRobert PaineStephen I RennardDonald P TashkinPrescott G WoodruffMeiLan K Hannull nullPublished in: Annals of the American Thoracic Society (2018)
Four CAT items on respiratory symptoms identified high-risk symptomatic ever-smokers with preserved spirometry as well as the CAT did. These data suggest that simpler strategies can be developed to identify these high-risk individuals in primary care.