title: Modification of the GOLD recommendations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to broaden their usage in Turkey.
abstract: Despite the introduction of numerous national and international COPD guidelines designed to provide clinicians with optimal evidence-based disease management strategies, COPD remains an underdiagnosed and poorly treated disease. The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) guidelines recommend disease specific diagnosis and management strategies, and they are widely used internationally. In this short report we present the outcomes of a meeting of respiratory experts in Turkey who reviewed the GOLD guidelines and their applicability to the Turkish healthcare system. In particular, we were interested to investigate the possibility of developing a simplified version of the combined assessment model which we believe will be more acceptable to Turkish pulmonologists and will increase its use in everyday clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Chest Disease , Ministry of Health, Süreyyapasa Research and Training Center for Chest Diseases and Thoracic Surgery , İstanbul , Turkey.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gunen
authors.affiliation: b Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine , Dokuz Eylul University , Izmir , Turkey.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kilinc
authors.affiliation: c Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine , Adnan Menderes University , Aydın , Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Polatli
authors.affiliation: d Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine , Selcuk University , Konya , Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suerdem
authors.affiliation: e Department of Chest Diseases, Faculty of Medicine , Uludag University , Bursa , Turkey.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Uzaslan
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D014421:Turkey
keywords: COPD diagnosis; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; GOLD guidelines; Turkey