Proactive, virtual intervention improves quality of life after discharge for COPD exacerbation

A pragmatic health system-level intervention improved quality of life for patients discharged after COPD exacerbation but failed to reduce 180-day readmission or mortality, researchers reported.

“Despite national policy efforts to drive improvement, most patients discharged after COPD do not receive care known to improve health outcomes for COPD, and there is scant evidence that overall quality of care has improved,”David H. Au, MD, MS, professor in the department of medicine at the Center of Innovation for Veteran-Centered and Value-Driven Care, Seattle, and colleagues wrote in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Read more in Healio.