Patient’s primary diagnosis: COPD.

by | Mar 12, 2021 | Healthcare

The patient’s primary diagnosis is COPD. The spirometry data indicating an FEV1/FVC of .52, which meets the diagnosis criterion of FEV1/FVC<0.7 informed this diagnosis (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease [GOLD], 2020). Notably, the COPD is...