It Is Smart to Set Treatment Goals, But Are Set Treatment Goals SMART? A Qualitative Assessment of Goals Described in the Assessment of the Burden of COPD Tool

Figures & data

Figure A1. Visualization of the integrated health status of a patient with COPD. The five domains of experienced burden of COPD, as measured with the ABC scale, are represented by the last five balloons, symptoms, functional status, mental status, fatigue and emotions. In addition, dyspnea and level of physical activity are also reported by the patients while smoking status, exacerbations, body mass index (BMI) and lung function are reported by the healthcare providers. (Figure taken with permission from Slok et al. [6]).

Figure A2. Distribution of the percentage of goals set at times when an intervention was offered during a consultation.

Table A1. Proportion of well described goals for both MCID and nMCID groups at different intervention moments during the trial.

	Intervention moment 1	Intervention moment 2	Intervention moment 3	Intervention moment 4	Intervention moment 5
MCID	44.1% (n = 15)	51.7% (n = 15)	36.8% (n = 7)	86.7% (n = 13)	100% (n = 7)
nMCID	48.1% (n = 39)	68.1% (n = 47)	35.1% (n = 20)	71.8% (n = 28)	75% (n = 3)
Df	1	1	1	1	1
N	115	98	76	54	11
X^2-value	1.56	2.36	0.19	1.31	1.93
p-Value	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	p > 0.05	p > 0.05

MCID is defined as 4 points difference scored on the SGRQ.

Slok AHM, In’t Veen JCCM, Chavannes NH, et al. Development of the assessment of burden of COPD tool: an integrated tool to measure the burden of COPD. NPJ Prim Care Respir Med. 2014;24(1):14021. doi:10.1038/npjpcrm.2014.21.

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