Home based COPD care of limited value

Home based care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after discharge from hospital improves patients' knowledge and some aspects of quality of life, but fails to engage general practitioners adequately or to prevent patients' readmissions to hospital. Hermiz and colleagues (p 938) suggest that additional interventions or interventions earlier in the disease process may be required to reduce hospitalisations.
 
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Randomised controlled trial of home based care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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BMJ 2002 325: 938. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

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