scholarly journals The awareness of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among smokers admitting to pulmonary medicine outpatient clinic: Single center experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Yakup Arslan ◽  
Nesrin Öcal ◽  
Deniz Doğan ◽  
Ahmet Çağın ◽  
Cantürk Taşçı ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Pulmonary Medicine ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Single Center Experience

A Correlational study on quality of life and disease severity among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) clients attending a pulmonary Medicine OPD of a Tertiary care hospital, Kolkata

2021 ◽  
pp. 528-532
Author(s):  
Uma Rani Adhikari ◽  
Soma Roy
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Disease Severity ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Pulmonary Medicine ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is recently the most common chronic lung disease and presents a serious medical, economic, and social problem for people. A correlational survey research was adopted to identify relationship between quality of life and disease severity among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) clients attending Pulmonary Medicine OPD in a selected hospital, Kolkata with the objectives to assess the quality of life of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) clients and to find out correlation between disease severity and quality of life among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) clients. Purposive sampling technique was adapted to select 138 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) clients attending Pulmonary Medicine OPD in a tertiary care hospital, Kolkata. The structured interview schedule was used to collect on demographic data and standardized WHO QOL BREF tool was used to assess Quality of Life. Standardized GOLD criteria were used to assess disease severity of COPD clients. Reliability of the demographic data collection tool was established by inter- rater method and r was 0.77. All the tools were tried out before final data collection. The finding of the study revealed statistically non-significant relationship between all the domain of QOL and disease severity of COPD patients. Total Quality of Life score is also not significantly related with COPD Disease severity score. The study results also showed that QOL is not associated with sociodemographic characteristics. The study concluded that, there is no correlation between quality of life and disease severity.

scholarly journals Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in ambulatory practice

2008 ◽  
pp. 29-33
Author(s):  
N. M. Shmeleva ◽  
V. P. Sidorova ◽  
A. S. Belevsky ◽  
E. I. Shmelev
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
National Guidelines ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Incorrect Diagnosis ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Inadequate Therapy

Quality of outpatient management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and ways to improve it have been studied in this trial. The study included analysis of 560 medical recorders of outpatients followed up in one and the same outpatient clinic by one and the same physician for 5 to 10 yrs and who were currently newly diagnosed for COPD, epidemiological investigation using questionnaire and spirometry in all patients attending the outpatient clinic, and organization of educational COPD center for physicians, nurses and patients. We assessed concordance of the patients' management according to medical records to national guidelines. Most frequent discrepancies were inaccurate recording of the patient's symptoms and history, incomplete and inadequate examination, incorrect diagnosis, inadequate therapy. Functional disorders were not estimated in 95.9 % of the patients, COPD stage was not determined in 100 % of the cases, severity was not assessed in 83.9 %, and 70.7 % of the patients were not diagnosed for complications and exacerbations of the disease. Inhaled bronchodilators were not administered in 41.9 % of the patients, 90 % of the patients were inadequately treated with antibiotics, 100 % of the patients were not vaccinated. The main reasons for this mismatching were thought to be poor awareness of COPD by physicians, lack of pneumologists in outpatient clinics, and insufficient technical provision of the outpatients clinics with spirographs, oxymeters, etc. The epidemiological examination involved 8 672 patients, among them 38 % reported respiratory symptoms and 24 % had ventilatory disorders. COPD was firstly diagnosed in 768 patients. Implementation of educational programmes have led to necessary functional investigations to be used twice more frequent.

scholarly journals Outcome of Lung Transplantation as a Treatment of Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Single-Center Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 2118-2122
Author(s):  
Magdalena Latos ◽  
Mirosław Nęcki ◽  
Daria Pawlak ◽  
Maciej Urlik ◽  
Remigiusz Antończyk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Lung Transplantation ◽  
Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Single Center ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Single Center Study ◽  
Center Study

Early Use of Oral Theophylline in Hospitalized Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients: Cost-Containment through Medical Education

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 749-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy H. Self ◽  
Robert F. Ellis ◽  
Harry L. Davis ◽  
Marilyn D. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Pulmonary Medicine ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Oral Theophylline ◽  
Medicine Service ◽  
Audit Period ◽  
The Impact

This study measured the impact of an education program conducted by a clinical pharmacist on early conversion from intravenous to oral theophylline in hospitalized chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Two separate two-month audit periods were conducted on the pulmonary medicine service (PMS) of a teaching hospital. During the first audit period (pre-ed), no education was provided. Prior to each month of the second two-month audit period (post-ed), an education program and handout outlining the rationale for early conversion from intravenous to oral theophylline was presented to medicine residents rotating onto the PMS. The results of this preliminary study suggest that the education program was responsible for a statistically significant decrease in intravenous aminophylline therapy from three days (pre-ed) to one day (post-ed). As a result of the reduction in length of intravenous therapy, both drug costs and patient charges were reduced by a statistically significant amount.

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