Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2023 Report: GOLD Executive Summary

The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has published the complete 2023 GOLD report, which can be freely downloaded from its webpage (www.goldcopd.org) together with a “pocket guide” and “teaching slide set” [1]. It contains important changes compared to earlier versions, and incorporates 387 new references [1]. Here, we present an executive summary of this GOLD 2023 report [1] that summarizes aspects that 1) are relevant from a clinician’s perspective and 2) updates evidence published since the prior executive summary in 2017.