Table 1 Participants time line

  Design

x

  Galician Ethics Committee approval

x

  Other nodes Ethics Committees

x

x

  Funding

x

x

  Web-page design and pilot study

x

 WHO (nodes)

  Galicia

x

  Balearic Islands

x

 WHAT

  Spirometry

x

  Clinical assesment

x

  MRC

x

  CAT

x

  IPAQ

x

  Laboratory analysis (optional)

x

  Chest radiography (optional)

x

 WHO (nodes)

  Galicia

x

  Balearic Islands

x

  Aragon

x

  Canary Islands

x

  Catalonia

x

  Bulgaria

x

  Croatia

x

  Germany

x

  Macedonia

x

  Romania

x

 WHAT

  Exacerbations (type and number)

x

x

x

  Mortality and morbidity outcome

x

x

x