RESULTS
asthma, COPD
COPD, ASTHMA
During the 4-month enrolment period (1 October 2018 to 31 January 2019), 11 430 patients consulted 47 GPs for any matter. Of these, 3162 patients were aged 40–80 years, not diagnosed with asthma or COPD, and allocated to the control group (

The results presented here show that a COPD coordinator facilitated spirometry and statistically significantly increased the detection of new COPD cases. Using COPD coordination tended to shorten the time interval to spirometry, but this was not statistically significant. For patients in the COPD coordination only group, a lower proportion of spirometry tests were prescribed, but a greater proportion were actually performed.Follow up to ensure spirometry was performed was one of the roles of the coordinator.