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ReviewRespiratory care2018

COPD Care in the 21st Century: A Public Health Priority.

Rachel N Criner, MeiLan K Han

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Review in Respiratory care, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 42 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
42citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

42 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Sex, hormones, and lung health.Physiological reviews · 2026
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  7. The Use of Lung Cancer Screening to Increase Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis in Veterans Affairs Primary Care.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2025
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  13. Improving COPD Management at Transitions of Care.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rachel N CrinerDepartment of Internal Medicine.
MeiLan K HanDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. mrking@umich.edu.
University of Michigan · US

Funding

Defining Pathways in COPD Patient Oriented ResearchK24HL138188 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MeiLan K Han · 2017 to 2026
$1.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL138188
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COPD is an underdiagnosed, undertreated, and yet largely preventable disease. COPD affects millions of Americans on a daily basis, accounts for tens of thousands of deaths per year, and costs billions to the United States health-care system annually. Further, it impacts the quality of life for patients living with the disease. COPD care is fragmented in the United States, with a high level of responsibility placed on patients and their primary care physicians. Pulmonary specialists care for a minority of patients with COPD in the United States. Unfortunately, tobacco dependence, which is the leading cause of COPD, remains prevalent. Further, women and those with low socioeconomic status continue to share a relatively greater burden of disease. Exacerbations are experienced frequently by patients and contribute to high rates of emergency department visits and in-patient admissions and readmissions as well as high medical costs to the United States economy. Numerous strategies have been proposed to combat these high rates, including the use of discharge bundles, hospital at-home programs, telemedicine, and tele-rehabilitation, but no single best strategy has emerged. The COPD National Action Plan was introduced in 2017 as part of a multi-stakeholder endeavor to encourage collaboration among various patients, caregivers, physicians, researchers, and policymakers to optimize awareness, diagnosis, and treatment of this disease. It is time to make COPD care a public health priority.

Indexed as

Cost of IllnessPatient Care ManagementPublic HealthPulmonary Disease, Chronic ObstructiveHealth PrioritiesHumansPrevalenceUnited StatesCOPDCOPD exacerbationdischarge bundledisparitieseconomic burdenprimary care physicianreadmissiontelemedicinetele-rehabilitationtobacco cessation

Identifiers

PMID29692353
PMCPMC6373864
OpenAlexW2800021531

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.