TY - JOUR T1 - Going for gold in COPD – a quality improvement project to reduce the inappropriate use of inhaled corticosteroids in the over 65s JF - Future Healthcare Journal JO - Future Healthc J SP - s67 LP - s67 DO - 10.7861/fhj.7.1.s67 VL - 7 IS - Suppl 1 AU - Peter Robinson AU - Lucy Wicks AU - Andre Kuble Y1 - 2020/02/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/Suppl_1/s67.abstract N2 - Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are associated with increased rates of pneumonia, fracture, diabetes and mycobacterial infection in a dose dependent manner. They have limited short- and long-term benefit in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cessation of steroids in selected patients has been proven safe. We observed that a large number of patients in the geriatric population were prescribed steroids, and set out to describe the incidence of steroid … ER -