
Definition of COPD from National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions
Purpose: | To determine if a patient has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). |
Specialty: | Pulmonology |
Objective: | criteria for diagnosis |
ICD-10: | J44 |
Description: | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a term that covers a spectrum of pulmonary disease stemming from chronic airflow obstruction. |
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