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Table 6 Percentagea of total OPCRD patients with COPD eligible for RCTs testing combined treatmentsb (n = 36 893)

From: Eligibility of real-life patients with COPD for inclusion in trials of inhaled long-acting bronchodilator therapy

Step

Criterion for sequential selection

NCT01120691 (I + Ga)

NCT01202188 (I + G)

NCT01315249 (I + G)

NCT01709903 (I + G)

NCT01782326 (I + G)

NCT01313650 (V + Ua)

NCT01316913 (V + U)

NCT01777334 (V + U)

NCT01431287 (T + Oa)

Median

1

FEV1

27.2

76.5

67.6

76.5

43.5

65.8

65.8

65.8

80.7

65.8

2

Other inclusion criteria

15.0

59.1

50.2

33.9

13.8

32.9

32.9

32.9

76.4

32.9

3

COPD related exclusion criteria

9.5

42.7

18.4

21.5

10.7

28.5

28.2

31.8

74.9

28.2

4

Concomitant pulmonary disease

8.4

38.2

16.7

19.4

9.4

25.3

25.1

27.8

70.9

25.1

5

Asthma, allergic diseases and atopy

5.4

24.9

11.4

14.9

7.0

20.0

24.4

27.0

68.7

20.0

6

Comorbidities

4.1

19.2

9.0

11.2

5.0

14.8

18.2

20.1

52.2

14.8

7

Other relevant conditions

4.0

18.5

8.9

11.1

4.8

13.7

16.7

18.5

48.9

13.7

8

Final eligible proportion (%) eligible

3.5

15.2

7.2

8.6

3.9

13.7

13.2

14.7

48.9

13.2

  1. Abbreviations: COPD chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, FEV 1 forced expiratory volume in 1 s
  2. aStepwise reduction of the percentage of the total number of OPCRD patients with COPD eligible for individual RCTs (columns) when applying groups of criteria (rows) sequentially. Median values for all RCTs shown in the table are listed in the last column
  3. bCombined treatments include: indacaterol and glycopyrronium (I + G), vilanterol and umeclidinium (V + U), and tiotropium and olodaterol (T + O)