Assessment of Burden of COPD tool: evidence not perception. Issue 1 (27th July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Slok, Annerika H.M.; Kotz, Daniel; van Breukelen, Gerard; Chavannes, Niels H.; Rutten-van Mölken, Maureen P.M.H.; Kerstjens, Huib A.M.; van der Molen, Thys; Asijee, Guus M.; Dekhuijzen, P.N. Richard; Holverda, Sebastiaan; Salomé, Philippe L.; Goossens, Lucas M.A.; Twellaar, Mascha; in 't Veen, Johannes C.C.M.; van Schayck, Onno C.P.
• Is Part Of: European respiratory journal. Volume 50:Issue 1(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-07-27
• Subjects: Respiratory organs -- Diseases -- Periodicals; Respiration -- Periodicals; 616.2
• DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00756-2017
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0903-1936

Abstract

We thank Houben- Wilke et al. [1] for their comments on the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool. They raised questions about the purpose of the ABC tool. The aims of ABC were clarified before its development, in the study protocol [2]. The ABC tool is multifaceted and was developed to measure burden of disease, facilitating shared decision making and formulation of a personal treatment plan [2–5]. All of these purposes relate to increasing self-management and stimulating behavioural change, which are, most often, important components of individual treatment plans. The goal of most treatment plans is to increase health status. Health status was therefore the primary outcome of our study [2–5]. ABC tool affects HRQoL and quality of primary/secondary COPD care but has not been tested in tertiary settings http://ow.ly/HZYF30cmTsx