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Correspondence
The place of comorbidities in ‘COPD control panel’
  1. Ivan Ivanovich Vishnivetsky1,
  2. Oleksandr Dyadyk1,
  3. Yuriy Mostovoy2
  1. 1Department of Internal Medicine and General Practice—Family Medicine, Donetsk National Medical University, Donetsk, Ukraine
  2. 2Department of Internal Medicine Propaedeutics, Vinnitsa National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnitsa, Ukraine
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ivan Ivanovich Vishnivetsky, Department of Internal Medicine and General Practice—Family Medicine, Donetsk National Medical University, R. Luxemburg 52a str., Donetsk 83114, Ukraine; iv.nov.med{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2012-203056

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    We read with interest about the new chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care framework proposed by Agustí and MacNee.1 The ‘control panel’ idea is very interesting and useful because it allows keeping in mind all we need for making optimal treatment decisions. But this aircraft cockpit metaphor reminded us that current evidence-based guidelines resemble the flight simulator rather than the real plane. In our everyday practice we base our decisions on the ‘dummy’ evidence derived from purified non-representative cohorts of COPD patients.2 Examples are Body mass index, airflow Obstruction, Dyspnea, and Exercise …

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    • Contributors All the authors analysed the article and co-wrote this correspondence to the editor.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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