Aims

To get a consensus among participants of all EU countries about a set of indicators relevant for monitoring COPD and asthma across the EU.
To provide recommendations for inclusion on the ECHI short and long final list of indicators.

To identify all routinely and research (large studies) sources of data providing useful information for monitoring COPD and asthma in the EU and assess their comparability (within and between countries) and their strengths and limitations.
Explore to what extent international databases such as OCDE, WHO, EUROSTAT could be improved based on the information available for these two conditions.
To identify the best scientific evidence on risk factors (exposures), prevalence, clinical management and policy interventions and explore to what extent the evidence is (or could be incorporated to the information systems).
To identify the most important protocol or clinical guidelines recommend by national or international scientific societies implemented in each EU country and assess their comparability
To identify a set of indicators useful for monitoring and covering several aspects of these two conditions such as risk factors, prevalence, clinical management and outcomes.

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