[PDF] Top 20 Improving medication adherence in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review

... a medication table, and education about symptom control, technique for expectoration and the importance of sim- ple exercises had a positive impact on adherence to short and long acting β agonists, inhaled ... See full document

... with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) fall frequently, although the risk of falls may seem less important than the respiratory consequences of the ...this systematic ... See full document

... present systematic review, it is our intention to examine the evidence base linking stroke and ...the review by including a number of recently published large, population-based observational ... See full document

... The systematic review will be published in a peer-reviewed ...The review will also be disseminated electronically and in ...the review will be conducted to inform and guide the healthcare ... See full document

... This review has several ...this review was designed to find cohort studies that had investigated the strength of the longitudinal association between depression, anxiety or panic disorder, and HRQoL in COPD ... See full document

... There are few studies that have evaluated this interven- tion. Diversity in treatment protocols of included studies meant that meta-analyses could not be performed. How- ever, preliminary results from single studies ... See full document

... Results: Seven trials were included, and the risk of bias in the majority of the studies was acceptable. There were no statistically significant differences in the incidence of death and acute exacerbation of ... See full document

... treatment adherence among patients with psychiatric disorders (28), pneumonia (29), and hypertension ...A systematic review and meta-analysis on seventeen clinical trials also reported the ... See full document

... at improving COPD patients’ me- dication adherence and inhalation technique based on a large ...inhaled medication for the maintenance treatment of ...real-life medication distributions among ... See full document

... of adherence as a concept, the de fi nition, evaluation and improvement of the adherence to treatment by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) still present ... See full document

... Medication supply was calculated according to the posology and inhaler size (e.g. 60-dose inhaler with prescriptive instructions of 1 inhalation twice daily = 30 days supply) for each prescription. A sequence of ... See full document

... between medication adherence and illness symptoms, 5,29 a number of points may explain this inconsistency; the high educational level of the participants, and the fairly stable disease progression ... See full document

... to chronic diseases, and they are confronted with the need to adhere to an often complex medication ...this systematic review was answering the question “What are the nursing interventions ... See full document

... recent systematic review published by the authors, [39], identified existing integrated PC guide- lines/pathways for patients with CHF and COPD in Eur- ... See full document

... auto-immune disease, there remained in the study 5 in whom connective tissue diseases were suspected on clinical grounds, and wdio were therefore tested for the presence of rheumatoid ... See full document

... of pulmonary embolism and a D-dimer level of less than 1000 ng/ml and in those with one or more of the aforementioned three criteria and a D-dimer level of less than 500 ng/ml ... See full document

... the disease is progressive, measurement tools and definitions still vary among studies, and implementation of spirometry is often no t feasible in developing ... See full document

... During the home visits, the patients were monitored regarding physical, mental, emotional and social well- being, living situation, social network, therapy adherence, coping, self-management and care needs. The ... See full document

... gender, disease, the grade of COPD), WBVT training regime (the intensity, the frequency, the duration), and compared outcomes (6-minute walking distance [6-MWD], forced expira- tory volume in 1 second [FEV 1 ], ... See full document

... assess disease se- verity, cause of acute exacerbation, and lung ...of pulmonary and extrapulmon- ary disease, including low muscle mass in patients with ... See full document