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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 24.
Published in final edited form as: Med Clin North Am. 2012 May 31;96(4):745–752. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2012.04.011

Figure 2.

Figure 2

The combined COPD Assessment. (Modified from the 2011 GOLD guidelines (2)) Patients are assigned lettered groups A-D based on spirometry, symptoms and number of exacerbations per year. If there is a discrepancy between which group the patient would fall into, always choose the higher risk group. For example, a patient who is GOLD stage II, with a CAT of 22 and 2 COPD exacerbations a year would fall into Group D rather than group B.