Home care by outreach nursing for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Cochrane Database of Systematic ReviewsPublished 23 July 2001
Brian J Smith, Sarah Appleton, Robert Adams, Anne Marie Southcott, Dick Ruffin
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Patients with moderate COPD may have mortality and health related quality of life gains from a nursing outreach programme, but there are no data about reductions in hospital utilisation.
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Patients with moderate COPD may have mortality and health related quality of life gains from a nursing outreach programme, but there are no data about reductions in hospital utilisation. Patients with severe COPD do not appear to have benefit from such programmes and one large study found no reduction in hospital admissions in such patients.
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