COPD: Recommendations and Supporting Evidence (2019)

Recommendations

Guideline recommendations are the essence of evidence-based guidelines and provide a course of action for the practitioner based on the evidence. Below, you will find the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) 2018 recommendations organized by Nutrition Care Process category.

Download the Guideline Comparison Table to see the changes between the 2019 and 2008 guideline recommendations.

Each recommendation receives a rating of Strong, Weak, or Consensus. The rating for the recommendation is primarily based on the strength of the supporting evidence but also the balance between benefits or harms anticipated and the clinical practice implications. The Academy categorizes recommendations in terms of either Imperative or Conditional statements. Conditional statements clearly define a specific situation or specific sub-population within the larger guideline population. Imperative statements are broadly applicable to the target population without restraints on their application. Learn more →

Resources Available with Each Recommendation

In addition to the recommendation statement and strength rating, on each recommendation page, you will find:

A brief narrative summary of the evidence analyzed to reach the recommendation
A statement of justification, or reason for the strength of the recommendation
Detailed information on the evidence supporting the recommendations and background narrative (available in the Supporting Evidence section toward the bottom of each recommendation page)
A reference list at the end of each recommendation page that includes all the sources used in the evidence analysis for the particular recommendation (each reference is hyperlinked to a summary of the article analyzed in the evidence analysis).