Reduction of Hospital Utilization in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease&lt;subtitle&gt;A Disease-Specific Self-management Intervention&lt;/subtitle&gt;

Bourbeau, Jean

doi:10.1001/archinte.163.5.585

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Reduction of Hospital Utilization in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease<subtitle>A Disease-Specific Self-management Intervention</subtitle>

Published in Archives of Internal Medicine • Mar 10, 2003

Authors:

Jean Bourbeau

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Self-management interventions improve various outcomes for many chronic diseases. The definite place of self-management in the care of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has not been established. We evaluated the effect of a continuum of self-management, specific to COPD, on th...

Subject

Medicine

Exacerbation

COPD

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