Boehringer Ingelheim and Optimum Patient Care Launch First US Primary Care Patient Registry to Improve COPD Care and Outcomes

First-of-its-kind registry to exclusively focus on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) treatment by primary care physicians   
Registry will track 3,000 patients and first findings will be announced later in 2019

Ridgefield, Conn., May 21st, […]

Change and step-down of combination treatment in asthma

Clinicians are often hesitant to change or reduce treatment in patients with asthma, especially when their symptoms are well-controlled. For such patients, this can mean over-treatment with unnecessarily high doses of corticosteroids or bronchodilators. In addition, […]

First Cardio-Vascular Publication from OPCRD

BODE Index a better Predictor of Exacerbations in COPD

Multi-component assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an evaluation of the ADO and DOSE indices and the global obstructive lung disease categories in international primary care data sets

Rupert C Jones, David Price, Niels H Chavannes, […]

OPC Publication in Thorax

Comorbidity in severe asthma requiring systemic corticosteroid therapy: cross-sectional data from the Optimum Patient Care Research Database and the British Thoracic Difficult Asthma Registry.

Joan Sweeney, Chris C Patterson, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Rob […]