Initiating single-inhaler triple therapy for COPD, compared with multiple-inhaler triple therapy, resulted in improved persistence, which led to reductions in mortality, exacerbations and health care resource use in patients with COPD.
“Single (or fixed-dose) combination inhalers offer advantages to COPD patients by simplifying complex inhaler regimens, and single inhaler delivery of dual or triple therapy in COPD improves adherence and persistence compared with delivery using multiple inhalers,” Bernardino Alcázar-Navarrete, MD, from the pulmonology unit at the Virgen de las