NCQA Certified COPD Educational Materials
(All PDF files)

Patient Educational Materials
   Understanding How Your Lungs Work: How COPD Affects Your Body
   When COPD Symptoms Get Worse
   Living With COPD: Managing Your Diet, Fitness and Moods
   Understanding and Managing Your COPD
   The Help You Need to Quit Smoking
   You Can Do It: Commit to Quit Smoking
   My COPD Checklist
   Spirometry and COPD: A Special Test to Determine the Health of Your Lungs
   "Quit Smoking" Diary
   My Symptoms Journal
   Helping You Breathe Better
   Beyond Just Getting By: A Caregiver's Guide to Peace Through Tough Times
   Here and Now: Creating a New Vision for Your Life With Chronic Illness


Practitioner Educational Materials
   COPD Care Management Assessment
   COPD Care Track
   Antibiotics for Acute Exacerbation Management
   Use of Medications in Stable COPD

   
Spirometry: The Standard for Diagnosing COPD

   
Differential Diagnosis of COPD

   Inpatient Management of Acute Exacerbations of COPD

   COPD and Other Respiratory Conditions: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM Reference Guide

Printer-Friendly Patient Educational Materials
(one-page flyers)


Getting Help When You Need it Quickly
My Quitting Smoking Diary
Using Coughing and Breathing Exercises to Help You Breathe
Living Well When You Have COPD
Take Control of Your COPD
Understanding COPD
COPD and Asthma
Chronic Bronchitis and Emphysema: How Are They Different?
Take It Easy
Living With COPD
COPD and a Healthy Diet
Talking to Your Doctor About COPD
Talking About COPD
Staying Positive With COPD
Managing Your Moods
Eating Healthy for COPD
Staying Fit With COPD
Pulmonary Rehabilitation for COPD
COPD and a Healthy Weight
Healthy Lungs
Understanding and Living With COPD
Know Your Medicines
Monthly Symptom Record
I Have COPD. What if I Get Sick?
COPD—When Symptoms Flare Up
What About Times When I Can't Avoid Risks?
Reducing the Risk of a COPD Flare-Up
COPD and Other Conditions
Irritated by COPD Flare-Ups?

Spanish Materials - Patient
   Comprensión y Control
   Diario De Síntomas

   Entender cómo funcionan los pulmones
   Vivir con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC)
   Cuando los síntomas de la EPOC empeoran
   Diario para dejar de fumar
   Puede Hacerlo
   La EPOC y la espirometría
   Lista para la EPOC
   La ayuda que necesita para dejar de fumar

Spanish Materials - Practitioner
   Antibióticos para el tratamiento de la exacerbación aguda
   Uso de Medicamentos para EPOC Estable
   EPOC - Evaluación para el tratamiento
   Diagnóstico diferencial de la EPOC
   Espirometría: El estándar para el diagnóstico de la EPOC
   Tratamiento Hospitaliario de Exacerbaciónes Agudas