The patient journey in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): a human factors qualitative international study to understand the needs of people living with COPD.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe DL 20 marzo 2008 specifies that interviews to the patients without any clinical intervention (as the present study) are not considered observational studies and, thus, don't need to be submitted to the revision and approval of an Ethical committee.All patients provided their informed consent to participate in this study. The informed consent included statements that required participants to agree to maintain confidentiality regarding the information shared during the study session, as well as described the conditions for the collection, use, processing, retention, and transfer of their personal data (including personally identifiable information and personal health information). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsNS declares no competing interests.AW declares no competing interests.CW is a full-time employee of Rebus Medical.EN, MS, and ML are full-time employees of Chiesi Farmaceutici. Competing interests NS declares no competing interests. AW declares no competing interests. CW is a full-time employee of Rebus Medical. EN, MS, and ML are full-time employees of Chiesi Farmaceutici."

"Funding All the activities were funded by Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. (Parma, Italy)."