The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) is a non-profit organization started by the World Health Organization and the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in 1997 to improve care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).[1][2] They have organized the annual awareness day, World COPD Day, every November since 2002.[3]

This organization issues recommendations for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and related medical conditions. GOLD issued its first formal recommendations in 2001.[2] Their approach departed from previous medical guidelines in two significant respects:

Adoption

The GOLD grading system for classifying the severity of COPD is widely used worldwide.[4]

References

  1. ^ Rodriguez-Roisin, Roberto (March 2019). Twenty years of GOLD (1997-2017). The origins (PDF) (Report).
  2. ^ a b c d e f Calverley, Peter M. A.; Macnee, William (2012-12-11). "Guidlines for COPD Management". Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (2 ed.). CRC Press. pp. 507–508. ISBN 978-1-4441-1393-8.
  3. ^ Raja, Lakshay (19 November 2020). "World COPD Day 2020: History, significance and theme for this year". Jagran English. Jagran New Media.
  4. ^ Al-Ruzzeh, Sharif; Kurup, Viji (2012-03-02). Marschall, Katherine (ed.). Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease E-Book. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-4557-3812-0.


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