the clinical copd questionnaire (ccq) has been developed to measure the health status of copd patients. the aim of this study was to translate ccq into the persian language and assess the validity and reliability of the translated version. we used a forward-backward procedure to translate the questionnaire. in a cross-sectional study 100 copd patients and 50 healthy subjects over 40 years old w...

BACKGROUND Early treatment of COPD exacerbations has shown to be important. Despite a non-negligible negative impact on health related quality of life, a large proportion of these episodes is not reported (no change in treatment). Little is known whether (low burden) strategies are able to capture these unreported exacerbations. METHODS The Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ) is a short questio...

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INTRODUCTION The Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ) measures health status and can be used to assess health-related quality of life (HRQL). We investigated whether CCQ is also associated with mortality. METHODS Some 1111 Swedish primary and secondary care chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients were randomly selected. Information from questionnaires and medical record review were...

The CODE questionnaire (COPD detection questionnaire), a simple, binary response scale (yes/no), screening questionnaire, was developed for the identification of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). We conducted a survey of 468 subjects with a smoking history in 10 public hospitals in Argentina. Patients with a previous diagnosis of COPD, asthma and other respiratory illn...

INTRODUCTION One in five college students report tobacco use, thus universities are making strides to reduce tobacco use by adopting smoke- or tobacco-free policies. PURPOSE Describe an innovative ambassador program to increase adherence with a tobacco-free campus policy. METHODS The Tobacco-Free Take Action! (TFTA!) Ambassador program was created to form an environment of compliance. Hot s...