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COPD is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in patients with lung disease throughout the world. The global initiative of obstructive lung disease (GOLD) has been a liter in developing recommendations based on published data to direct the definition assessment and overall treatment of patients with COPD. The overall objective of GOLD is to disseminate knowledge about state of the art COPD care to improve the overall come of patients with COPD. GOLD will soon publish a major revision of recommendations for COPD care, the first major revision in 5 years. This session will take those recommendations and present them in a meaningful way to make them applicable for clinical care. As a result, participants will be able to understand current recommendations for state of the art care of the COPD patient.