Open Access<p>Variation in Assignment of the COPD Patients into a GOLD Group According to Symptoms Severity</p>
Author(s) -
Virginia Moya-Álvarez,
Juan Luis Quevedo-Marín,
Zichen Ji,
Cristivarro-Jiménez,
Rodrigo Jiménez-García,
Ana LópezdeAndrés,
Alfonso Pérez-Trullén,
Javier de Miguel-Díez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s253445
Subject(s) - concordance , medicine , youden's j statistic , copd , gold standard (test) , kappa , cut point , obstructive lung disease , receiver operating characteristic , mathematics , statistics , geometry
The Global Organization of Lung Disease (GOLD) classifies patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) taking into account the symptoms. The modified Medical Research Council's dyspnea scale (mMRC) and the COPD assessment test (CAT) are used to assess these symptoms. In this study, we analyze the concordance of GOLD classification using mMRC and CAT.