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The approach taken to find a solution The Activating Primary Care COPD Patients with Multimorbidity (APCOM) program, is a self-management support program aimed to improve patient activation, COPD-related quality of life, COPD knowledge, inhaler device technique and self-management capacity of their multimorbidity. There was also a significant improvement ( I p i = 0.001) in the accuracy of patients' inhaler device technique, with 20 patients performing the technique correctly at 6 months follow-up compared to five patients at baseline. The Tuberculosis Diagnostic Clinic regularly convenes a group of radiologists and internists to decide on the activity of the tuberculosis status of problematic patients who are sputum TB Genexpert negative yet manifest with possible tuberculosis. Keywords: asthma; COPD; COVID-19; lung cancer; respiratory infections; tuberculosis EN asthma COPD COVID-19 lung cancer respiratory infections tuberculosis 807 816 10 07/21/23 20230801 NES 230801 B Background b : In conjunction with the Annual Scientific Congress of the APSR held in Seoul, South Korea in November 2022, a workshop was held which brought together representatives from the APSR, Union APR, WHO SEARO and WHO WPRO. [Extracted from the article]

Background and objective The relative contributions of emphysema and airway remodelling to airflow limitation remain unclear in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD). We aimed to evaluate the relative contributions of emphysema and airway wall thickness measured by quantitative computed tomography ( CT) to the prediction of airflow limitation in two separate COPD cohorts. Methods Pulmonary function tests and whole-lung CT were performed in 250 male smokers with COPD, including 167 from University Medical Center at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and 83 from Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital, Japan. The same CT analysis software was used to measure the percentage of low attenuation volume (% LAV) at the threshold of −950 Hounsfield units and the square root of wall area of a hypothetical airway with an internal perimeter of 10 mm ( Pi10). The standardized coefficients in multiple linear regressions were used to evaluate the relative contributions of % LAV and Pi10 to predictions of FEV1/ FVC and FEV1% predicted. Results Both % LAV and Pi10 independently predicted either forced expiratory volume in 1 s/forced vital capacity ( FEV1/ FVC) or FEV1% predicted ( P ≤ 0.001 for all standardized coefficients). However, the absolute values of the standardized coefficients were 2−3 times higher for % LAV than for Pi10 in all prediction models. The results were consistent in the two COPD cohorts. Conclusions % LAV predicts both FEV1/ FVC and FEV1 better than Pi10 in patients with COPD. Thus, emphysema may make a greater contribution to airflow limitation than airway remodelling in COPD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]