Better management of COPD between primary and secondary careRoger Wolstenholme explains how some nurse-led initiatives are improving the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) across the primary–secondary care interfaceRoger WolstenholmeJournal of Wound Care...
Objective: To investigate the organisation in secondary care with regard to management of COPD.doi:10.1016/j.pcrj.2006.04.170STALLBERG, BDepartment of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala Science Park, Uppsala, 751 85, Sweden;LISSPERS, K...
Most clinical contacts with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients take place in primary care, presenting opportunity for proactive clinical management. Electronic health records could be used to risk stratify diagnosed patients in this setting, but may be limited by poor data quality or...
Most clinical contacts with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients take place in primary care, presenting opportunity for proactive clinical management. Electronic health records could be used to risk stratify diagnosed patients in this setting, but may be limited by poor data quality or...
Interpretation: In a secondary data analysis of the Randomized Master Protocol for Immune Modulators for Treating COVID-19 (ACTIV-1 IM), the receipt of infliximab or abatacept, in addition to the standard care treatment for COVID-19 pneumonia, was associated with changes in resource use after ...
COPD: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease MI: Myocardial infarction HR: Hazard ratio CI: Confidence interval AUC: Area under the curve ROC: Receiver operating characteristic ARIC: Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities References Packer M, Lam C, Lund LH, Redfield MM. Interdependence of atria...
Diagnosis of Anxiety in COPD Patients: Usefulness of the HADS Test in Primary Care and Pulmonology Services This was a multicentric, observational, and prospective study in which 293 COPD patients were recruited, and they underwent comprehensive respiratory and ... Barrueco, Enrique,Hernández-Mezquita...
care physicians. Other challenges are represented by a low protection given by immunisations, the need for multiple boosting doses, the increased adverse effects to live vaccines, and the difficulty to define the stage of immunodepression or to identify the ideal timing for administering a vaccine ...
There is a need to standardise the use of clinical guidelines in primary care; although there are national guidelines for the management of TB and HIV-TB co-infection,10,16 the guidelines for asthma and COPD are not standardised, thus leading to considerable variation in practice. Healthcare ...
In retrospect, there was a clear need for secondary care input in only 13% of the sample: nine diagnosed with rhinosinusitis following ENT assessment, one with bronchiectasis following CT and three with persistent unexplained cough. There were paired quality-of-life (LCQ) data for 76 of the ...