Pages: 4 - 14
Article topics: 2010 NICE guidelines, Assessment of prognostic factors, Best practice and guidance, Inhaled therapy, Pulmonary rehabilitation, Severity classification, Spirometry
Margaret Barnett summarises the 2004 and the new recommendations from the 2010 National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Margaret Barnett RN, MSc, Dip COPD & Asthma is COPD Nurse & Specialist Team Lead, Plymouth NHS Teaching PCT
Article accepted for publication: November 2010