The group assignment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may differ depending on whether the COPD assessment test (CAT) or modified Medical Research Council dyspnoea scale (mMRC) is used.
August 20, 2012 — Although the 2011 Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (GOLD) intended to provide a staging system for chronic ...
The original Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea scale was developed by the British MRC in the 1950s, and it was first formally published in 1961 in a study on chronic bronchitis.1 It was designed ...