Palliative care early in the care continuum among patients with serious respiratory illness: an official ATS/AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN policy statement

DR Sullivan, AS Iyer, S Enguidanos… - American Journal of …, 2022 - atsjournals.org
Background: Patients with serious respiratory illness and their caregivers suffer
considerable burdens, and palliative care is a fundamental right for anyone who needs it …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing digital technologies in clinical trials: lessons learned

G Mitsi, T Grinnell, S Giordano, T Goodin… - Innovations in Clinical …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Multiple digital health technologies have been evaluated across clinical development
programs, including external, wearable, implantable, and ingestible devices and sensors …

Developments in respiratory self-management interventions over the last two decades

TW Effing - Chronic Respiratory Disease, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper describes developments in the fields of asthma and COPD self-management
interventions (SMIs) over the last two decades and discusses future directions. Evidence …

Living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the stories of frequent attenders to the emergency department

K Robinson, E Lucas, P Van Den Dolder… - Journal of clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aims and objectives To explore the experiences of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) amongst individuals who have a high frequency of presentations to the Emergency …

The impact of a personalised action plan delivered at discharge to patients with COPD on readmissions: a pilot study

A Hegelund, IC Andersen… - … journal of caring …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Self‐management interventions in COPD, including action plans, have the
potential to increase quality of life and to reduce respiratory‐related hospitalisations …

A complex intervention of self‐management for patients with COPD or CHF in primary care improved performance and satisfaction with regard to own selected …

AB Zakrisson, M Arne, M Hasselgren… - Journal of advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To test a self‐management intervention in primary health care (PHC) for patients with
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or chronic heart failure (CHF) on self …

Telehealth services for persons with chronic lower respiratory disease and their informal caregivers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

JS McGee, R Meraz, DR Myers, MR Davie - Practice Innovations, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
The objective of this article is to provide clinicians, from multiple disciplines, important
clinical information to consider when providing health education and emotional support to …

Development of a smartphone application for Korean patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: self-monitoring based action plans

JY Choi, M George, SY Yun - Applied Nursing Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Aim The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a smartphone application (app)
of a COPD action plan (AP) based on symptom self-monitoring (SM)[AP-SM Sapp] to support …

Reducing the number of hospitalization days for COPD: setting up a transmural-care pathway

LF Westbroek, M Klijnsma, P Salomé… - … journal of chronic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Background Many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience
exacerbations of symptoms, leading to a large burden on patients and the health system and …

[HTML][HTML] Facilitators and barriers to clinicians' use of COPD action plans in self-management support: a qualitative study

E Feiring, T Friis - Patient Education and Counseling, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective Written action plans for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) aim at early recognition of exacerbations and self-initiation of interventions …