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, COPD Guidelines Tool for Palm OS from the Global Initiative for Chronic Lung Disease (GOLD)

COPD Guidelines Tool for Palm OS
from the Global Initiative for Chronic
Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)

Put the GOLD COPD Guidelines in the palm of your hand…

A practical point-of-care reference to the Pocket Guide to COPD Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention from the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, available for download and use on Palm OS devices.

Image of a Palm OS viewing the COPD GuidelinesContents include:

Assess and Monitor COPD
Reduce COPD Risk Factors
Management of Stable COPD
Management of Acute COPD Exacerbations

The GOLD COPD Guidelines tool for Palm OS is intended as a point-of-care reference to the Pocket Guide. Clinicians should be thoroughly familiar with this document and with the full GOLD Executive Summary report before using this reference tool in patient care.

Instructions for installing the Guidelines tool on your
Palm OS device:

  1. Download the file "COPD.prc" to your computer.
  2. After COPD.prc is saved on your computer, use the Palm desktop software to HotSync the file to your Palm OS device.
  3. Then, tap the GOLD COPD icon on your Palm OS device and follow the instructions to use the program.

The GOLD COPD Guidelines tool for Palm OS is in the public domain and may be freely reproduced and distributed. However, the Guidelines may not be altered in any way.

Please credit the GOLD and the NHLBI whenever reproducing this program.


| NHLBI Palm OS Applications | NHLBI Lung Information for Health Care Professionals



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Archived page, reproduced from a 2003 copy. It is reference material, not current guidance.