Predictors of patient adherence to long-term home nebulizer therapy for COPD. The IPPB Study Group. Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing. Chest 1995; 108:394-400.Joan Turner,Elizabeth Wright,Lynda Mendella,Nicholas Anthonisen.  Predictors of Patient Adherence to Long-term Home Nebulizer ...
Our goal was to elucidate how patients with COPD who successfully maintain a long-term exercise programme understand concordance with maintenance exercise and see potential solutions. The information, collected from 11 individuals through six in-depth interviews and one focus-group interview, was ...
Introduction: Long-term non-invasive ventilation (LTNIV) for the stable hypercapnic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-patients have been a subject of much debate in the last two decades. The aim of this study was to compile the current knowledge on LTNIV in order to evaluate the ...
Tips for Your Whole Health Why Your Long-Term Care Facility Needs Integrated Respiratory Therapy Modern healthcare must evolve to meet the changing needs of patients and long-term care facilities. Patients with chronic respiratory diseases, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), require...
This study aims to create a comprehensive COS for assessing the long-term outcome (≥ 5 years) after MBS, incorporating patient-related factors through the use of the Delphi method. This COS can add value to clinical practice to compare or improve results after MBS. Methods Phase 1: Identi...
In our rural primary care practice, we currently have over 20 patients who have taken guaifenesin daily, for more than 3 years as an adjuvant to their prescribed medications for either chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and/or stable chronic bronchitis. We report the long-term use of...
Diabetes mellitus is a central driver of multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs), but population-based studies have not clearly characterized the burden across the life course. We estimated the age of onset, years of life spent and loss associated with diabetes-related MLTCs among 46 million Engli...
the magnitude of the regularization term, and again the class weights assigned to the two classes by the base estimator. The searched range for parameters is the same as those specified for the ExtraTrees case, except for the strength of the regularization term, whose inverse was sampled from ...
Distinctive inflammatory responses in COVID-19 were evident between adults and children. While certain MMPs exhibited post-treatment reduction, the persistence of elevated levels raises concerns about potential long-term consequences, including lung fibrosis. Our findings emphasize the need for personalized...
That being the case, in assessing the benefits of a particular valve design, the goal should be a comparison of clinical outcomes, such as survival, freedom from valve-related morbidity, and functional capacity rather than EOAs, gradients, and patient–prosthesis mismatch. Finally, both stented ...