This article reports that Gill Wakely and Ruth Chambers, physicians, explain how to deal with self-management plans in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Working as a team in the practice to discover the reasons behind this, and then changing the systems as a result, can improve ...
People in the Best Care program become active partners in their care, taking back control over their lives. The efficacy of Best Care has been empiricallydemonstrated to improve patients' quality of life and to help avoid emergency department visitsandreduce hospitalizations. Over the past three yea...
Lung Surgery for COPD In rare cases of severe COPD that doesn’t improve with medication, your doctor may suggest lung surgery. While not right for everyone, a procedure like lung volume reduction surgery can improve lung capacity and your ability to breathe. With this surgery, some of the ...
(COPD is a group of lung diseases that block airflow and make it difficult to breathe.) You can breathe in a lot of bad stuff through the air on a regular basis — including bacteria, viruses and dust particles, notes Philip M. Tierno Jr., professor of microbiology and pathology at ...
The value to the user could be immense as a companion to maintaining health, rather than simply providing a static result. True patient support is about understanding, recognising and solving real problems and aiming to improve individual health. This is the ultimate goal of everything we do. ...
In addition to the symptoms of COPD, some medications used to treat COPD can make sleeping problems worse. Drugs like theophylline (Theo-24, Theochron, Elixophylline) improve chest symptoms in COPD patients but reduce sleep quality for some. ...
CONCLUSION: Patients with reduced exercise capacity who experience less ventilatory limitation to exercise and more reduced respiratory and peripheral muscle strength are more likely to improve with exercise training. Improvements in quality of life after exercise training were significant but remained ...
s disease and diabetes.1The good news is that there are several medications available to treat this group of illnesses, which include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and improve these individuals’ quality of life. But many patients aren’t having the conversations necessary to ...
Health status and costs of exacerbations of chronic bronchitis and COPD: how to improve antibiotic treatment. Expert Rev Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Res. 2005;5:423-35.Miravitlles M. Health status and costs of exacerbations of chronic bronchitis and COPD: how to improve antibacterial treatment. ...
Participants who benefited in self-esteem, confidence and motivation attributed this to one-to-one multidisciplinary coaching and home visits. Further research should test whether including/excluding more intensive programme elements based on individual need might improve cost-effectiveness....