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摘要
Background
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma treatmentmust be based on appropriate diagnosis. However, patients receiving
inhaled therapy in primary caremay not be accurately diagnosed according to current guidelines.
Aim
To analyse the characteristics of patients treated with inhaledmedication, the concordance of tools for differential diagnosis, and the adequacy of
prescription of inhaled corticosteroids (ICs) in primary care. Design and setting Cross-sectional,multicentre, non-interventional study conducted in 10 primary care centres in
Barcelona, Spain.
Method
Patients with chronic respiratory disease, aged >40 years were treated with ICs. They provided sociodemographic and clinical information and performed forced spirometry with a bronchodilator
test (BDT). The diagnostic accuracy of asthma and COPD diagnoses were tested using two differential diagnosis questionnaires.
Results
A total of 328 patients were initially classified as having COPD (64.8%), asthma (15.4%), or indeterminate (19.8%) by their GPs. After
spirometry, 40% of patients hadmoderate-severe airflow obstruction according to the GOLD classification;mean reversibility of forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) was 8.4%; 18.6%had a positive BDT; and 39.8%had postbronchodilator
FEV1/forced vital capacity >0.7.
Concordance of the differential diagnosis tools was
moderate (clinical diagnosis versus spirometry and between the two questionnaires), low (clinical
diagnosis versus questionnaires), and very low (spirometry versus differential diagnosis). Of the patients diagnosed with COPD, 71.4%were treated with ICs, and 12%of those classified as having asthma were not receiving ICs.
Conclusion
Most patients can be classified as having COPD or asthma by primary care physicians. The use of the two questionnaires did not provide a better
differential diagnostic compared with symptoms and spirometry with a BDT.Misdiagnosismay lead to inadequate treatment.
- 出版日期2012-2
