Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Physician and patient perspectives on the pathway to care from symptom recognition to diagnosis and disease burden

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive disease that requires ongoing care and is associated with considerable socioeconomic burden. We evaluated the IPF care pathway from symptom recognition to treatment. We describe the impact of IPF on healthcare resource use (HCRU), quality of life (QoL) and work impairment, and report differences in patient and physician perspectives using real-world data from France, Germany, Japan and...