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Effectiveness of community-based integrated care in frail COPD patients: a randomised controlled trial

Author: Hernandez, C. Country/countries: Spain Number of patients participating in the study: 160 This study was focused on patients living with COPD
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Plus Intervention components: UCP
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Setting of implementation: N/A Professionals delivering the intervention: N/A Targeted self-management behaviours: N/A
Intervention analysed in the study: Social support Intervention components: E+SS
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Setting of implementation: Home-care, Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Nurses, Physicians, Social worker Targeted self-management behaviours: Communication with healthcare and/or social care providers, Condition-specific behaviours, Handling /managing emotions, Medication use and adherence, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Résultat Mesure Tool
COPD symptoms (short term) Dyspnea or breathlessness Medical Research Council Prion Disease Rating Scale (MRC Scale)
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety Anxiety Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)-Anxiety subscale
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety Depression Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) -depression subscale
Mortality All causes of mortality N/A
Number of emergency room visits and admissions COPD-related hospital admissions N/A
Number of emergency room visits and admissions Emergency room/department visits N/A
Qualiy of life Quality of life (specific-disease instruments) N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 74.08 years (+/- a standard deviation of 8.56) Gender: 24 females Time since diagnosis of COPD: N/A Severity of the disease: 42.63 (+/- a standard deviation of 19.55) Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Résultat Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
COPD symptoms (short term) - Dyspnea or breathlessness
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety - Anxiety
Coping with the disease, including depression and anxiety - Depression
Mortality - All causes of mortality
Number of emergency room visits and admissions - COPD-related hospital admissions
Number of emergency room visits and admissions - Emergency room/department visits
Qualiy of life - Quality of life (specific-disease instruments)

Other publications associated with this study

Integrated care services: lessons learned from the deployment of the NEXES project Lien: 10.5334/ijic.2018.