A Study in South Korea Using Medical Records to Look at Different Treatments for Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease (COPD)
A Study in South Korea Using Medical Records to Look at Different Treatments for Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease (COPD)
Non-interventional, Single-country study based on existing data from medical records of COPD
 patients treated with LAMA or fixed dose combination of ICS/LABA
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  Diagnosed with COPD [based on ICD-10 code(J43.x-44.x except J430), as the primary or
 within the fourth secondary diagnosis and initiated LAMA or ICS/LABA more than twice a
 year from Jan 1, 2005 to Apr 30 2016].

 -  Age >55 years old

 Exclusion Criteria:

 -  Prescription history with any long acting bronchodilator for maintenance therapy (the
 patient should be inhaler naïve)

 -  Prescription history with ipratropium bromide

 -  Prescription history with Leukotriene receptor antagonist(LTRA) or ICS

 -  Patients with lung cancer, IPF, ILD or lung transplantation at the time of COPD
 diagnosis