When you are invited to write an Editorial on a given paper, you are expected to provide a strong personal opinion that will both attract the readers' interest whilst giving food for thought. Here, we have been asked to try to achieve both goals with respect to the paper by Burgel et al. [1] on the use of a simple algorithm for the identification of clinical chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) phenotypes published in this same issue of the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ). Can algorithms help the practicing clinician to prescribe the best treatment? http://ow.ly/44yF30fwCc9

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COPD：算法和临床管理

当您被邀请在给定的论文上撰写社论时，您需要提供强烈的个人意见，既能吸引读者的兴趣，又能引起思考。在这里，我们被要求尝试实现 Burgel 等人的论文的两个目标。[1] 关于使用简单算法识别临床慢性阻塞性肺疾病 (COPD) 表型，发表在同一期欧洲呼吸杂志 (ERJ) 上。算法可以帮助临床医生开出最佳治疗方案吗？http://ow.ly/44yF30fwCc9