FUMEPOC: Early detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in smokers

BMC Public Health

Study Protocol

Luis Rosado-Bretón¹  Manuel Yarza-Cañellas¹  Carmen Olivares-Bautista²  Vicente Gil-Guillén³  Concepcion V Carratala Munuera⁴  María P Vela-Troncoso⁵  Alejandro Muñoz-Fernández⁶  Juan J Soler⁷  Adriana López-Pineda⁸  Domingo Orozco-Beltrán⁸  Carlos Plaza-Sirvent⁸  Antonio Fernández⁸  Patricia Lorca-Amorrich⁸ 

[1] Agencia Valenciana de Salud, Conselleria de Sanidad, Micer Mascó no 31, 46010, Valencia, Spain;Centro de Salud Villena II, Avenida Los toreros s/n, 03400, Villena, Alicante, Spain;Departamento Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche (Campus de San Juan), 03550, San Juan de Alicante, Alicante, Spain;Departamento Medicina Clínica, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Carretera Nacional 332 Alicante-Valencia s/n, 03550, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, Spain;Departamento de Medicina Interna, Hospital General de Elda (Alicante), Ctra. Sax-Elda, s/n, 03600, Elda, Spain;Hospital General de Elda Virgen de la Salud, Ctra. de Sax s/n, 03600, Elda, Spain;Servicio de Neumología, Hospital de Requena, 46340, Casablanca, S/N, Requena, Spain;Unidad Investigación, Hospital Universitario San Juan de Alicante, Carretera Nacional 332 Alicante-Valencia s/n, 03550, Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, Spain;

关键词: Primary Care;    Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease;    Primary Care Setting;    Airflow Limitation;    Gold Standard Test;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-11-413

 received in 2011-02-22, accepted in 2011-05-31,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundCurrently is not feasible using conventional spirometry as a screening method in Primary Care especially among smoking population to detect chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in early stages. Therefore, the FUMEPOC study protocol intends to analyze the validity and reliability of Vitalograph COPD-6 spirometer as simpler tool to aid screening and diagnosis of this disease in early stages in primary care surgery.Methods / DesignStudy design: An observational, descriptive study of diagnostic tests, undertaken in Primary Care and Pneumology Outpatient Care Centre at San Juan Hospital and Elda Hospital. All smokers attending the primary care surgery and consent to participate in the study will undergo a test with Vitalograph COPD-6 spirometer. Subsequently, a conventional spirometry will be performed in the hospital and the results will be compared with those of the Vitalograph COPD-6 test.DiscussionIt is difficult to use the spirometry as screening for early diagnose test in real conditions of primary care clinical practice. The use of a simpler tool, Vitalograph COPD-6 spirometer, can help in the early diagnose and therefore, it could improve the clinical management of the disease.

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