The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published the
complete 2023 GOLD report, which can be freely downloaded from its web page (www.
goldcopd.org) together with a “pocket guide” and “teaching slide set”[1]. It contains important
changes compared to earlier versions, and incorporates 387 new references[1]. ...
The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published the
complete 2023 GOLD report, which can be freely downloaded from its web page (www.
goldcopd.org) together with a “pocket guide” and “teaching slide set”[1]. It contains important
changes compared to earlier versions, and incorporates 387 new references[1]. Here, we present
an executive summary of this GOLD 2023 report[1] that summarizes aspects that a) are relevant
from a clinician´s perspective and b) updates evidence published since the prior executive
summary in 2017.
