Abstract
RATIONALE: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasingly recognized as a multicomponent disease with systemic consequences and effects on quality of life. Single measures such as lung function provide a limited reflection of how the disease affects patients. Composite measures have the potential to account for many of the facets of COPD. OBJECTIVES: To derive and validate a multicomponent assessment tool of COPD severity that is applicable to all patients and health care settings. METHODS: The index was derived using data from 375 patients with COPD in primary care. Regression analysis led to a model explaining 48% of the variance in health status as measured by the Clinical COPD Questionnaire with four components: dyspnea (D), airflow obstruction (O), smoking status (S), and exacerbation frequency (E). The DOSE Index was validated in cross-sectional and longitudinal samples in various health care settings in Holland, Japan, and the United Kingdom. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The DOSE Index correlated with health status in all data sets. A high DOSE Index score (> or = 4) was associated with a greater risk of hospital admission (odds ratio, 8.3 [4.1-17]) or respiratory failure (odds ratio, 7.8 [3.4-18.3]). The index predicted exacerbations in the subsequent year (P <or = 0.014). CONCLUSIONS: The DOSE Index is a simple, valid tool for assessing the severity of COPD. The index is related to a range of clinically important outcomes such as health care consumption and predicts future events.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1189-1195 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine |
Volume | 180 |
Issue number | 12 |
Early online date | 24 Sept 2009 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 15 Nov 2009 |
Keywords
- aged
- cohort studies
- cross-sectional studies
- dyspnea
- female
- health status
- hospitalization
- humans
- longitudinal studies
- male
- middle aged
- odds ratio
- pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive
- questionnaires
- reproducibility of results
- respiratory insufficiency
- severity of illness index
- smoking