Table S1.
Physician beliefs about COPD outlook compared to 10 years ago by country: Continuing to Confront COPD International Survey, 2012–2013
| Total (N=1,307) |
USA (N=200) |
Mexico (N=101) |
Brazil (N=101) |
France (N=100) |
Germany (N=100) |
Italy (N=100) |
Spain (N=100) |
UK (N=100) |
NL (N=101) |
Russia (N=100) |
Japan (N=101) |
SK (N=103) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compared to 10 years ago, would you say the long-term health outlook for patients with COPD has become better, become worse, or has stayed about the same? | |||||||||||||
| Become worse (%) | 4 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 8 |
| About the same (%) | 18 | 23 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 35 | 18 | 26 |
| Become better (%) | 79 | 76 | 78 | 88 | 78 | 80 | 94 | 85 | 87 | 80 | 55 | 78 | 66 |
| Among physicians who reported that outlook had “become better”, ‘Why has the long-term health outlook improved for patients with COPD?’* | |||||||||||||
| Better medications for COPD (%) | 86 | 89 | 86 | 90 | 83 | 90 | 79 | 88 | 84 | 89 | 75 | 84 | 90 |
| Increased smoking cessation/less passive smoking exposure (%) | 28 | 39 | 15 | 19 | 19 | 15 | 16 | 20 | 40 | 36 | 38 | 32 | 51 |
| More public acceptance and knowledge about COPD (%) | 22 | 23 | 38 | 26 | 23 | 26 | 9 | 20 | 22 | 30 | 11 | 14 | 26 |
| Better diagnostics/earlier diagnosis of COPD (%) | 21 | 18 | 29 | 11 | 33 | 21 | 31 | 38 | 21 | 12 | 25 | 4 | 9 |
| Increased access to COPD medication (%) | 15 | 7 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 12 | 23 | 11 | 53 | 11 | 22 |
| Better treatment of comorbidities and symptoms associated with COPD (%) | 10 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 4 | 44 | 4 | 4 |
| Better disease management/more frequent follow-up of patients with COPD (%) | 10 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 29 | 14 | 1 | 16 | 13 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 12 |
| Pulmonary rehabilitation/physiotherapy (%) | 9 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 23 | 11 | 27 | 5 | 3 |
| Better adherence to COPD treatment (%) | 9 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 4 | 15 |
| Better-trained physicians/Availability of guidelines and tools for physicians (%) | 9 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 36 | 6 | 0 |
| Long-term oxygen therapy (%) | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 27 | 10 | 7 |
| Reduced exposure to harmful environmental factors (%) | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 18 |
Notes:
*
Percentages for each country will sum to greater than 100%; results from an open-ended question asking physicians to provide reasons why they believe the health outlook for patients with COPD has improved; predefined list provided.
Abbreviations: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; NL, the Netherlands; SK, South Korea.