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Background: Inaccurate diagnosis in COPD is a current problem with relevant consequences in terms of inefficient health care, which has not been thoroughly studied in primary care medicine. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the degree of inaccurate diagnosis in Primary Care in Spain and study the determinants associated with it. Methods: The Community Assessment of COPD Health Care (COACH) study is a national, observational, randomized, non-interventional, national clinical audit aimed at evaluating clinical practice for patients with COPD in primary care medicine in Spain. For the present analysis, a correct diagnosis was evaluated based on previous exposure and airway obstruction with and without the presence of symptoms. The association of patient-level and center-level variables with inaccurate diagnosis was studied using multivariate multilevel binomial logistic regression models. Results: During the study 4,307 cases from 63 centers were audited. The rate of inaccurate diagnosis was 82.4% (inter-regional range from 76.8% to 90.2%). Patient-related interventions associated with inaccurate diagnosis were related to active smoking, lung function evaluation, and specific therapeutic interventions. Center-level variables related to the availability of certain complementary tests and different aspects of the resources available were also associated with an inaccurate diagnosis. Conclusions: The prevalence data for the inaccurate diagnosis of COPD in primary care medicine in Spain establishes a point of reference in the clinical management of COPD. The descriptors of the variables associated with this inaccurate diagnosis can be used to identify cases and centers in which inaccurate diagnosis is occurring considerably, thus allowing for improvement.
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Diagnostic Errors/trends , Lung/physiopathology , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/trends , Primary Health Care/trends , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/diagnosis , Age Factors , Comorbidity , Female , Humans , Male , Medical Audit , Predictive Value of Tests , Prevalence , Prognosis , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/epidemiology , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/physiopathology , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/therapy , Reproducibility of Results , Risk Factors , Smoking/adverse effects , Smoking/epidemiology , Smoking/physiopathology , Spain/epidemiologyABSTRACT
BACKGROUND: A thorough evaluation of the adequacy of clinical practice in a designated health care setting and temporal context is key for clinical care improvement. This study aimed to perform a clinical audit of primary care to evaluate clinical care delivered to patients with COPD in routine clinical practice. METHODS: The Community Assessment of COPD Health Care (COACH) study was an observational, multicenter, nationwide, non-interventional, retrospective, clinical audit of randomly selected primary care centers in Spain. Two different databases were built: the resources and organization database and the clinical database. From January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2016 consecutive clinical cases of COPD in each participating primary care center (PCC) were audited. For descriptive purposes, we collected data regarding the age at diagnosis of COPD and the age at audit, gender, the setting of the PCC (rural/urban), and comorbidities for each patient. Two guidelines widely and uniformly used in Spain were carefully reviewed to establish a benchmark of adequacy for the audited cases. Clinical performance was analyzed at the patient, center, and regional levels. The degree of adequacy was categorized as excellent (> 80%), good (60-80%), adequate (40-59%), inadequate (20-39%), and highly inadequate (< 20%). RESULTS: During the study 4307 cases from 63 primary care centers in 6 regions of the country were audited. Most evaluated parameters were judged to fall in the inadequate performance category. A correct diagnosis based on previous exposure plus spirometric obstruction was made in an average of 17.6% of cases, ranging from 9.8 to 23.3% depending on the region. During the audited visit, only 67 (1.6%) patients had current post-bronchodilator obstructive spirometry; 184 (4.3%) patients had current post-bronchodilator obstructive spirometry during either the audited or initial diagnostic visit. Evaluation of dyspnea was performed in 11.1% of cases. Regarding treatment, 33.6% received no maintenance inhaled therapies (ranging from 31.3% in GOLD A to 7.0% in GOLD D). The two most frequently registered items were exacerbations in the previous year (81.4%) and influenza vaccination (87.7%). CONCLUSIONS: The results of this audit revealed a large variability in clinical performance across centers, which was not fully attributable to the severity of the disease.
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Clinical Audit/methods , Primary Health Care/methods , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/diagnosis , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/therapy , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Clinical Audit/statistics & numerical data , Female , Guideline Adherence/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Multicenter Studies as Topic , Observational Studies as Topic , Primary Health Care/statistics & numerical data , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/physiopathology , Retrospective Studies , Spain , Spirometry/methodsABSTRACT
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Humans , Male , Female , Asthma/epidemiology , Asthma/prevention & control , Status Asthmaticus/epidemiology , Status Asthmaticus/prevention & control , Societies, Medical/standards , Societies, Medical/trends , Societies, Medical , Asthma/immunology , Status Asthmaticus/immunology , Societies, Medical/history , Societies, Medical/organization & administrationABSTRACT
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Humans , Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/epidemiology , Smoking/adverse effects , Spirometry , Diagnosis, Differential , Severity of Illness Index , Nutritional Status , Lung Transplantation , Risk FactorsABSTRACT
Respiratory tract infections are frequent and they are one of the commonest causes of antibiotic prescription. However, there are few clinical guidelines that consider this group of infections. This document has been written by the Andalusian Infectious Diseases Society and the Andalusian Family and Community Medicine Society. The primary objective has been to define the recommendations for the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of respiratory tract infections apart from pneumonia. The clinical syndromes evaluated have been: a) pharyngitis; b) sinusitis; c) acute otitis media and otitis externa; d) acute bronchitis, laryngitis, epiglottitis; e) acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis; and f) respiratory infectious in patients with bronchiectasis. This document has focused on immunocompetent patients.
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Respiratory Tract Infections/diagnosis , Respiratory Tract Infections/therapy , Decision Trees , Humans , Otitis Media/diagnosis , Otitis Media/therapyABSTRACT
Las infecciones respiratorias distintas de la neumonía son frecuentes y una de las causas más comunes de prescripción de tratamiento antibiótico. A pesar de ello, hay escasos documentos o guías de práctica clínica que aborden en su conjunto este grupo de infecciones. Este Documento de Consenso ha sido realizado por la Sociedad Andaluza de Enfermedades Infecciosas y la Sociedad Andaluza de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria. El objetivo primario ha sido definir las indicaciones terapéuticas y el diagnóstico de las infecciones respiratorias tratadas. Desde este punto de vista, el documento se ha estructurado en varias partes cada una de las cuáles se ocupa de un síndrome clínico: a) faringoamigdalitis; b) sinusitis; c) otitis aguda media y externa; d) bronquitis aguda, laringitis aguda y epiglotitis; e) tratamiento antimicrobiano de la exacerbación aguda de la bronquitis crónica, y f) infecciones respiratorias en pacientes con bronquiectasias. Este documento se ha centrado en pacientes inmunocompetentes (AU)
Respiratory tract infections are frequent and they are one of the commonest causes of antibiotic prescription. However, there are few clinical guidelines that consider this group of infections. This document has been written by the Andalusian Infectious Diseases Society and the Andalusian Family and Community Medicine Society. The primary objective has been to define the recommendations for the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of respiratory tract infections apart from pneumonia. The clinical syndromes evaluated have been: a) pharyngitis; b) sinusitis; c) acute otitis media and otitis externa; d) acute bronchitis, laryngitis, epiglottitis; e) acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis; and f) respiratory infectious in patients with bronchiectasis. This document has focused on immunocompetent patients (AU)
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Humans , Respiratory Tract Infections/drug therapy , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use , Respiratory Tract Infections/diagnosis , Respiratory Tract Infections/etiology , Clinical Protocols , Pharyngitis/diagnosis , Pharyngitis/drug therapy , Bronchitis/diagnosis , Bronchitis/drug therapy , Sinusitis/diagnosis , Sinusitis/drug therapy , Otitis/diagnosis , Otitis/drug therapy , Bronchiectasis/diagnosis , Bronchiectasis/drug therapyABSTRACT
Las infecciones respiratorias distintas de la neumonía son frecuentes y una de las causas más comunes de prescripción de tratamiento antibiótico. A pesar de ello, hay escasos documentos o guías de práctica clínica que aborden en su conjunto este grupo de infecciones. Este Documento de Consenso ha sido realizado por la Sociedad Andaluza de Enfermedades Infecciosas y la Sociedad Andaluza de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria. El objetivo primario ha sido definir las indicaciones terapéuticas y el diagnóstico de las infecciones respiratorias tratadas. Desde este punto de vista, el documento se ha estructurado en varias partes cada una de las cuáles se ocupa de un síndrome clínico: a) faringoamigdalitis; b) sinusitis; c) otitis aguda media y externa; d) bronquitis aguda, laringitis aguda y epiglotitis; e) tratamiento antimicrobiano de la exacerbación aguda de la bronquitis crónica, y f) infecciones respiratorias en pacientes con bronquiectasias. Este documento se ha centrado en pacientes inmunocompetentes
Respiratory tract infections are frequent and they are one of the commonest causes of antibiotic prescription. However, there are few clinical guidelines that consider this group of infections. This document has been written by the Andalusian Infectious Diseases Society and the Andalusian Family and Community Medicine Society. The primary objective has been to define the recommendations for the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of respiratory tract infections apart from pneumonia. The clinical syndromes evaluated have been: a) pharyngitis; b) sinusitis; c) acute otitis media and otitis externa; d) acute bronchitis, laryngitis, epiglottitis; e) acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis; and f) respiratory infectious in patients with bronchiectasis. This document has focused on immunocompetent patients
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Humans , Respiratory Tract Infections/diagnosis , Pharyngitis , Bronchiectasis , Sinusitis , Otitis , Bronchitis , Respiratory Tract Infections/therapy , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/trends , Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic useABSTRACT
Respiratory tract infections are frequent and they are one of the commonest causes of antibiotic prescription. However, there are few clinical guidelines that consider this group of infections. This document has been written by the Andalusian Infectious Diseases Society and the Andalusian Family and Community Medicine Society. The primary objective has been to define the recommendations for the diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of respiratory tract infections apart from pneumonia. The clinical syndromes evaluated have been: a) pharyngitis; b) sinusitis; c) acute otitis media and otitis externa; d) acute bronchitis, laryngitis, epiglottitis; e) acute exacerbation of chronic bronchitis; and f) respiratory infectious in patients with bronchiectasis. This document has focused on immunocompetent patients.
