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title: COPD Assessment Test Questionnaire
description: How the COPD Questionnaire appears to patients, which SNOMED codes are saved to the EHR, and how to enable the relevant monitoring rules in the User Management Portal.
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# COPD Assessment Test Questionnaire

## 🔍How it appears to patients?

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**📋SNOMED codes saved to EHR**

- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test score (observable entity) - 446660005
- Medical Research Council Breathlessness Scale Grade 1 - 391120009
- Medical Research Council Breathlessness Scale Grade 2 - 391123006
- Medical Research Council Breathlessness Scale Grade 3 - 391124000
- Medical Research Council Breathlessness Scale Grade 4 - 391125004
- Medical Research Council Breathlessness Scale Grade 5 - 391126003
- Number of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations in past year (observable entity) - 723245007
- Smoker - 77176002
- Ex-smoker - 8517006
- Never smoked tobacco - 266919005
- Cigarette consumption (value per day) - 230056004

**⚙️ Associated Monitoring Rules** 

To use the COPD Questionnaire effectively, the relevant **monitoring rules** associated with COPD must be enabled. To enable the rule:

1. Go to the **User Management Portal**.
2. Navigate using the left-hand panel to **Rules Management**.
3. Search for **"CAT Score"**.
4. ✅ Enable the rule that will allow you to identify patients whose CAT score and MRC Grade you'd like to monitor.

**🔍 How the CAT score is calculated**

The chronic obstructive pulmonary disease assessment test (CAT) score is calculated based on the sum of values responded to each of the questions 2 to 9 in the questionnaire. For example,

- if the patient answers 3 for each of the eight questions, then the CAT score is a total of 24.
- if the patient answers 5 for each of the eight questions, then the CAT score is a total of 40.

#### **❓ Want to Understand How Questionnaires Work?**

If you're looking to understand how **Questionnaires** operate more generally, check this [help article.](https://help.abtrace.co/how-do-patient-questionnaires-work?hsLang=en)

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