Sanofi and Regeneron, AstraZeneca, Roche’s Genentech and GSK have provided support for the Living Well with COPD educational ...

Inhaler technique informs health care outcomes in COPD management and should be a primary focus in patient education priorities. EP: 1 . Risk Factors and Comorbidities Impacting Patients With COPD ...

Jeffrey D. Dunn, PharmD, MBA: Obviously, if a patient can’t breathe, they’re going to seek help. Or if they have an exacerbation and have to go to the ED [emergency department], we know what ...

Lung disease experts say Medicare's new policy to penalize excessive hospital readmissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will do more harm than good--hurting a vulnerable ...

The author also highlights several advances in inhaler use, including the ability to combine therapies and to choose the right inhaler based on patient-centered decisions. "Education is key to ...

A recent national study revealed ongoing symptom burden and communication gaps in COPD care, and provided physicians with actionable improvement strategies.

Approximately two thirds of hospitalized adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) received suboptimal treatment with inhalers, mainly resulting from errors, based on data from 96 ...

Teaching patients with COPD and asthma on how inhaler devices work helps reduce acute symptom flare-ups after hospitalization. Those with low health literacy appeared to benefit most from this.

Q: My doctor has recommended pulmonary rehab for my COPD. What will this involve? A: COPD – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – is a group of disorders that damages the lungs and ma… ...

Press VG, Arora VM, Shah LM, et al. Teaching the use of respiratory inhalers to hospitalized patients with asthma or COPD: a randomized trial. J Gen Intern Med . 2012;27:1317-1325. 7.

Inhaler misuse was high in hospitalized patients with COPD, with 69.4% of all inhalers at admission found to be misused, according to results published in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases ...