Advancing the Patient Experience in COPD Registry (APEX COPD)

Study type

• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Disease epidemiology

  Effectiveness study (incl. comparative)

  Other
• If ‘other’, further details on the scope of the study:
  Quality improvement

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Other
• Non-interventional study design, other:
  Longitudinal registry study

Study drug and medical condition

• Medical condition to be studied:
  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Population studied

• Age groups:
  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  3000

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  Describe and characterise the COPD primary care patient population natural history overall and by different subgroups, and evaluate the comparative clinical, safety and cost effectiveness of current COPD treatments by class of therapy for COPD overall and in specific patient groups/phenotypes, to understand the predictors of response to available COPD treatment options.
• Data analysis plan:
  Describing the natural history of COPD in the US Phenotyping COPD sub-groups Examining significant predictors of clinical outcomes