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. 2014 Mar 5;15:42. doi: 10.1186/1471-2296-15-42

Table 3.

Agreement between actual prescribing of ICS/LABA for 59 COPD patients (FEV 1 /FVC <0.7) with no concomitant diagnosis of asthma in 2009/10 and the prescribing recommended based on the 2007–2010 GOLD guidelines

  ICS/LABA recommended (FEV 1 % predicted <50 and previous exacerbation)  
ICS/LABA
 Yes
 No
  
Prescribed 2009/10
  
  
  
 Yes
 9
 14
 23
 No
 2
 34
 36
 
 11
 48
 59
  Kappa = 0.37 (SE 0.12)