Table 1 Study selection criteria.
From: Daytime symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review
Criteriaa | |
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Patient | • Adult patients (>40 years) of any gender or race, with a diagnosis of COPD (any disease severity) and having daytime COPD symptoms • Studies enrolling a mixed population of patients experiencing daytime and night-time symptoms were only included if subgroup data for patients with daytime symptoms were available |
Intervention | • No selection criteria |
Comparator | • No selection criteria |
Outcome | • Primary outcomes of interest included: prevalence of daytime COPD symptoms; relative bothersomeness/troublesomeness or intensity of symptoms; how the prevalence and bothersomeness/troublesomeness or intensity fluctuates throughout the day; relationship between daytime COPD symptoms and other outcomes, such as activities of daily living, health status, quality of life, and exacerbations; types of interventions used to treat daytime symptoms, including pharmacotherapy; and measures and tools used to assess daytime COPD symptoms |
Study design | • All studies reporting any data on daytime COPD symptoms (e.g., multi- and single-center randomized controlled trials, nonrandomized trials, single-arm clinical trials, and real-world and observational studies) • Studies with full-text publications available only in languages other than English were excluded |
