TY - JOUR T1 - Advance care planning in severe COPD: it is time to engage with the future JF - ERJ Open Research JO - erjor DO - 10.1183/23120541.00009-2018 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 00009-2018 AU - Stefan Andreas AU - Bernd Alt-Epping Y1 - 2018/01/01 UR - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/4/1/00009-2018.abstract N2 - Severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive and debilitating illness characterised by relentless loss of function, intensifying dyspnoea and frequent exacerbations. COPD patients are evidently at increased risk of depression, frailty and death [1, 2]. Predicting individual short-term prognosis and course of events is difficult if not impossible.Advance care planning should be part of our clinical routine in severe COPD http://ow.ly/Cshs30i8FS9 ER -