ACO Working Group

Work Plan

Only formally recognised by GINA/GOLD for the first time in 2014, ACO is an area of growing research interest and one particularly “ripe” for real-life research given the typical exclusion of asthma patients from COPD RCTs and vice versa. Although the 2014 GINA/GOLD joint ACO statement is a first step towards recognising and defining the syndrome, the ACO Working Group felt the GOLD/GINA definition is limited because it lacks specificity and does not differentiate between the types of ACO clinicians see in routine clinical practice.

The REG ACO Working Group activities are focussing on:

• Better characterising ACO as an entity
• Evaluating treatment opportunities in ACO

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Minutes from recent REG ACO working group meetings

REG Summit, March 2019

ERS, September 2018

REG Summit, March 2018

ERS, September 2017