What is it about?

A new version of the Russian Respiratory Society guidelines released at the end of 2016 was based on the proposal by GOLD but adapted to the characteristics of the Russian health system and included an algorithm of pharmacologic treat¬ment of COPD.

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Why is it important?

The proposed algorithm reflects and summarizes different approaches to the pharmacological treatment of COPD taking into account the reality of health care in the Russian Federation

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I hope that this article will help our colleagues form different countries to create their own algorithms for COPD management.

Sergey Avdeev
Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University

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This page is a summary of: Russian guidelines for the management of COPD: algorithm of pharmacologic treatment, International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, January 2018, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/copd.s153770.
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