1. Assessing COPD in Primary Care

2. COPD: A Public Health Concern

3. Role of Primary Care Clinicians in Diagnosing COPD

4. GOLD Definition of COPD

5. NHANES: Frequency of Undiagnosed Obstructive Lung Disease

6. Undiagnosed COPD Negatively Affects HRQoL

7. Why Is COPD Underdiagnosed?

8. Key Clinician Barriers to COPD Diagnosis

9. Underuse of Spirometry

10. Barriers to Spirometry in Primary Care

11. Trained PCPs Perform Spirometry Well

12. Diagnosing COPD GOLD Categories of Airflow Limitation

14. GOLD: When to Use Spirometry

15. Screening Questions* for COPD

16. Assessing Medical History in Patients With Diagnosed COPD

17. GOLD Therapeutic Categorization

18. GOLD Therapeutic Categorization Symptom Assessment

19. Modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) Dyspnea Scale

20. COPD Assessment Tool (CAT)

21. GOLD Categorization: Assessing Exacerbation Risk

22. Assessing Exacerbation Risk

23. GOLD Therapeutic Categorization

24. GOLD: Pharmacotherapy for Stable COPD

25. GOLD: Nonpharmacologic Approaches

28. Monitoring Patients With COPD

29. Adjusting COPD Pharmacotherapy

30. Supporting Self-Management

31. Supporting Self-Management SDM and Action Plans

32. Supporting Self-Management Promoting Self-Efficacy

33. Concluding Remarks

34. Abbreviations

35. Abbreviations (cont)