COPD National Action Plan:
Community Action Tool
Discover the progress the COPD community has made toward implementing the goals and objectives in the COPD National Action Plan.

Patient-Inspired Validation of Outcome Tools (PIVOT)

Overview

Organization: COPD Foundation
Start Date: 06/2021
End Date: Ongoing
Primary Goal: Goal 4: Increase and sustain research to better understand the prevention, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD.
Secondary Goal(s):
  • Goal 3: Collect, analyze, report, and disseminate COPD-related public health data that drive change and track progress.
Objective(s):
  • Enhance and optimize our capacity to collect and aggregate data from multiple sources, including at local, regional, and national levels, and turn them into actionable information.
  • Help expand, coordinate, and optimize COPD research efforts
  • Develop personalized medicine for COPD based on the pathogenesis and clinical heterogeneity
  • Promote research that can lead to strategies that help prevent the onset and progression of COPD and improve the quality of COPD care and management
Collaboration: Industry partners participate in our Industry Expert Forum
Activity Type: Health care delivery, Research

Activity Description

PIVOT is a patient-centric framework for the coordination of activities for the development, validation, and qualification of biomarkers and clinical outcome assessments for use in the evaluation of treatment benefit for pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches in COPD, bronchiectasis, and other chronic lung diseases.

Audience

General Audience: Patients, Health professionals, Researchers
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: N/A
Setting: Community, Online

Cost and Funding Sources

Impact Analysis

Results pending

Advice or Lessons Learned

Work to include meaningful aspects of health and lived experience in measurement instruments.

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Contact Information

Alan Hamilton
COPD Foundation
Senior Directory of Research
Miami
Florida