Yes / The increasing prevalence and associated cost of treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unsustainable. Health care organizations are focusing on ways to support self-management and prevent hospital admissions, including telehealth-monitoring services capturing physiological and health status data. This paper reports on data captured during a pilot randomized controlled trial of telehealth-supported care within a community-based service for patients discharged from hospital following an exacerbation of their COPD. The aim was to undertake the first analysis of system data to determine whether telehealth monitoring can identify an exacerbation of COPD, providing clinicians with an opportunity to intervene with timely treatment and prevent hospital readmission. Methods: A total of 23 participants received a telehealth-supported intervention. This paper reports on the analysis of data from a telehealth monitoring system that captured data from two sources: (1) data uploaded both manually and using Bluetooth peripheral devices by the 23 participants and (2) clinical records entered as nursing notes by the clinicians. Rules embedded in the telehealth monitoring system triggered system alerts to be reviewed by remote clinicians who determined whether clinical intervention was required. We also analyzed data on the frequency and length (bed days) of hospital admissions, frequency of hospital Accident and Emergency visits that did not lead to hospital admission, and frequency and type of community health care service contacts—other than the COPD discharge service—for all participants for the duration of the intervention and 6 months postintervention. Results: Patients generated 512 alerts, 451 of which occurred during the first 42 days that all participants used the equipment. Patients generated fewer alerts over time with typically seven alerts per day within the first 10 days and four alerts per day thereafter. They also had three times more days without alerts than with alerts. Alerts were most commonly triggered by reports of being more tired, having difficulty with self-care, and blood pressure being out of range. During the 8-week intervention, and for 6-month follow-up, eight of the 23 patients were hospitalized. Hospital readmission rates (2/23, 9%) in the first 28 days of service were lower than the 20% UK norm. Conclusions: It seems that the clinical team can identify exacerbations based on both an increase in alerts and the types of system-generated alerts as evidenced by their efforts to provided treatment interventions. There was some indication that telehealth monitoring potentially delayed hospitalizations until after patients had been discharged from the service. We suggest that telehealth-supported care can fulfill an important role in enabling patients with COPD to better manage their condition and remain out of hospital, but adequate resourcing and timely response to alerts is a critical factor in supporting patients to remain at home. / This project was funded by the National Institute for Health Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care Yorkshire and Humber (CLAHRC YH).

Lau Yin Kei. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 58-79). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgement --- p.I / Abstract --- p.IV / Abstract in Chinese --- p.VI / Abbreviations --- p.VIII / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Prevalence of COPD and asthma in Hong Kong --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Players in pathogenesis of COPD --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Players in pathogenesis of asthma --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- The use of exhaled breath condensate in previous studies --- p.6 / Chapter 1. 5 --- Brief overview of chemokines --- p.8 / Chapter 1.6 --- Objective of this study --- p.12 / Materials and methods --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1 --- Study population --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- Patients with COPD and control subjects --- p.14 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- Patients with asthma and control subjects --- p.15 / Chapter 2.2 --- Lung function --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3 --- Dyspnoea score measurement of patients with COPD --- p.16 / Chapter 2.4 --- Classification of patients and asthma severity --- p.16 / Chapter 2.5 --- Skin prick test and blood tests --- p.16 / Chapter 2.6 --- Collection of exhaled breath condensate --- p.17 / Chapter 2.7 --- Measurement of constituent in EBC --- p.17 / Chapter 2.7.1 --- "Measurement of 8-isoprostane, MCP-1 and GROα in patients with COPD and the corresponding control subjects" --- p.17 / Chapter 2.7.2 --- Measurement of eotaxin and MDC of patients with asthma and the corresponding control subjects --- p.18 / Chapter 2.8 --- Reproducibility of exhaled breath constituent --- p.18 / Chapter 2.8.1 --- "Assessment of reproducibility of the exhaled MCP-1, GROα and8- isoprostane measurements" --- p.19 / Chapter 2.8.2 --- Assessment of reproducibility of the exhaled eotaxin and MDC measurement --- p.19 / Chapter 2.9 --- Statistical analysis --- p.19 / Results --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1 --- Patients with COPD and corresponding control subjects --- p.21 / Chapter 3.2 --- Patients with asthma and corresponding control subjects --- p.28 / Discussion --- p.36 / Chapter 4.1 --- "Exhaled 8-isoprostane, GRO-α and MCP-1 of patients with COPD and corresponding control subjects" --- p.36 / Chapter 4.2 --- Exhaled eotaxin and MDC from patients with asthma and corresponding control subjects --- p.43 / Chapter 4.3 --- Technical aspects of EBC assessment --- p.49 / Future prospect --- p.54 / Conclusion --- p.56 / References --- p.58 / Tables and Figures / Table 1. Demographics of the COPD and control subjects --- p.22 / Figure 1. The level of 8-isoprostane in the exhaled breath condensate of COPD and control subjects --- p.23 / Figure 2. The level of GROa in the exhaled breath condensate of COPD and control subjects --- p.25 / "Figure 3 Bland and Altman's Plot of the repeatability of 8-isoprostane, GROa and MCP-1 in the exhaled breath condensate of normal controls" --- p.27 / Table2. Clinical and physiological details of the subjects --- p.29 / Figure 4. Level of eotaxin in exhaled breath condensate of asthma and control subjects --- p.30 / Figure 5 Level of MDC in exhaled breath condensate of asthma and control subjects --- p.31 / Table 3. Levels of eotaxin and MDC in exhaled breath condensate of asthma subjects on different dose of inhaled corticosteroids --- p.33 / Figure 6. Relationship between exhaled breath condensate level of MDC and total serum IgE level --- p.35

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Bakgrund: Astma och KOL är två vanlig kroniska sjukdomar som är kopplade till stort sjukdomslidande och lägre livskvalité. Många personer som idag lever med sjukdomarna lever isolerat från andra. Idag har vi en ständig utveckling av sociala nätverk som öppnar en ny möjlighet för egenvård. Egenvård kan göra att patienter får en bättre vardag samt att det lättare kan få ett socialt umgänge. Syfte: Syftet är sammanställa befintlig litteratur och där undersöka hur informations- och kommunikationsteknologi underlättar egenvården för patienter med astma och KOL. Metod: Litteraturstudie där artiklarna söktes i databaser för omvårdnadsvetenskap så som Web Of Science, pubmed och Cinahl. Litteraturstudien baseras på 16 vetenskapliga artiklar som både är kvalitativa och kvantitativa. Artiklarna som valdes är inte äldre än 10 år gamla, skrivna på engelska och publicerade i en vetenskaplig tidning. Resultat: Resultatet som artiklarna påvisade är grundade på IKT i form av datorer, mobiltelefoner, surfplattor och web-baserad program. Artiklarna visar att egenvården kan förbättras genom ökad livskvalité, bättre kommunikation och bättre sjukdomsinsikt när man använder IKT. Slutsats: IKT är en viktig roll i våran hälso- och sjukvård idag. Det finns dock liten forskning på hur egenvården kring astma och KOL påverkas av IKT. Den forskning som finns pekar åt är att den förbättrar för patienter. Det behövs även mer forskning kring IKT som en resurs för egenvård kring ett omvårdnadsperspektiv. / Introduktion: Asthma and COPD are two common chronic diseases that are linked to major suffering and reduced quality of life. Many people who live with the disease are isolated from others. Today we have a continuous development of social networks that opens a new opportunity for self-care. Self-care can make patients get a more normal life style and that it is easier to get a social life. Aim: The aim is to compile existing literature and of wich explore how information and communications technology facilitates selfcare for patients with asthma and COPD. Methods: Literaturestudy where the articles were searched in databases of nursing such as Web of Science, PubMed and Cinahl. The literature review based on 16 scientific articles that are both qualitative and quantitative. The articles selected are not older than 10 years, written in english and published in a scientific journal. Results: The results that the articles showed are based on ICT in the form of computers, cell phones, tablets, and web-based programs. Articles show self-care can be improved through increased quality of life, better communication and a better understanding of illness when using ICT. Conclusion: ICT play an important role in our health care today. However, there is little research on how self-care while suffering from asthma and COPD is influenced by ICT. The research is pointing to the improvements for patients. It also needed more research around ICT, self-care and from a nursing perspective.

Bakgrund: Kronisk obstruktiv lungsjukdom (KOL) är kronisk luftrörs/lungsjukdom. World Health Organisation [WHO] informerar att KOL kommer bli den tredje största dödsorsaken globalt och 3 miljoner människor har dött på grund av KOL år 2012 i världen och samtidigt sjukdomen har ökat bland kvinnor. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att belysa upplevelserna av att leva med KOL hos kvinnor. Metod: En litteraturstudie baserad på sju vetenskapliga, kvalitativa artiklar. I de inkluderade artiklarna kunde man läsa om kvinnors upplevelser. Artiklar analyserades utifrån beskrivning av allmän textanalys. Resultat: Resultat presenterades i följande tre kategorier, upplevelser av fysiska svårigheter och begräsningar såsom förlorat styrka att göra vardagliga saker, att vara begränsad till sitt rum, begränsad aktiviteter och sömn svårigheter. Upplevelser av oro och rädsla såsom om att bli andfådd, att dö i sömnen eller att andningstekniken inte ska fungera. Upplevelser av skuldkänslor relaterad till rökning, att man sätter skulden på myndigheterna då man inte fick information om konsekvenserna. Slutsats: Patienter med sjukdomen KOL kan uppleva begränsningar i vardagen på grund av sjukdomen. Deras sociala liv kan också påverkas då de ofta blir bundna till sina hem. Det kan man påstå att det behövs vidare forskning. / Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic bronchial/pulmonary disease. World Health Organisation (WHO) informs that COPD will become the third largest cause of death globally and 3 million people have died due to this disease in the year 2012 in world and same time this disease have increased among women. Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the experiences of women living with COPD disease. Method: A general literature review was performed based on seven scientific qualitative articles. The included articles were about women´s experiences. Analysis of the selected qualitative studies was performed by a general text analysis. Results: The result was presented in three categories. The first category was about experiences of physical difficulties and limitations that dealt loss of the strength to do daily life things, being confined to own room or house, limited activities in and outside of house and insomnia. The second category was about experiences of anxiety and fear of being short of breath, dying in sleep and breathing techniques failure. Third category dealt with experiences of Guilt related to smoking, blaming authorities that they did not given information about consequences of smoking. Conclusion: Patients with COPD may experience limitations in daily life because of the disease. Their daily life can also be affected as they are often confined to their homes. It may be argued that it is needed further research.

This is a foundational study that applies Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis to the evaluation of a chronic disease model that utilizes Remote Monitoring (RM) devices to identify clinical deterioration in a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) population. Background: RM programmes in Disease Management (DM) are proliferating as one strategy to address management of chronic disease. The need to validate and quantify evidence-based value is acute. There is a need to apply new methods to better evaluate automated RM systems. ROC analysis is an engineering approach that has been widely applied to medical programmes but has not been applied to RM systems. Evaluation of classifiers, determination of thresholds and predictive accuracy for RM systems have not been evaluated using ROC analysis. Objectives: (1) apply ROC analysis to evaluation of a RM system; (2) analyse the performance of the model when applied to patient outcomes for a COPD population; (3) identify predictive classifier(s); (4) identify optimal threshold(s) and the predictive capacity of the classifiers. Methods: Parametric and non-parametric methods are utilized to determine accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and predictive capacity of classifiers Saturated Peripheral Oxygen (SpO2), Blood Pressure (BP), Pulse Rate (PR) based on event-based patient outcomes that include hospitalisation (IP), accident & emergency (A&E) and home visits (HH). Population: Patients identified with a primary diagnosis of COPD, monitored for a minimum of 183 days with at least one episode of in-patient (IP) hospitalisation for COPD in the 12 months preceding the monitoring period. Data Source: A subset of retrospective de-identified patient data from an NHS Direct evaluation of a COPD RM programme. Subsets utilized include classifiers, biometric readings, alerts generated by the system and resource utilisation. Contribution: Validates ROC methodology, identifies classifier performance and optimal threshold settings for the classifier, while making design recommendations and putting forth the next steps for research. The question answered by this research is that ROC analysis can provide additional information on the predictive capacity of RM systems. Justification of benefit: The results can be applied when evaluating health services and planning decisions on the costs and benefits. Methods can be applied to system design, protocol development, work flows and commissioning decisions based on value and benefit. Conclusion: Results validate the use of ROC analysis as a robust methodology for DM programmes that use RM devices to evaluate classifiers, thresholds and identification of the predictive capacity as well as identify areas where additional design may improve the predictive capacity of the model.

Bakgrund Kroniskt obstruktiv lungsjukdom (KOL) är en kostsam folksjukdom med stora risker att utveckla följdsjukdomar. Rökning är den enskilt största orsaken till KOL och en framgångsrik tobaksavvänjning ger därför stora hälsovinster. Distriktssköterskans arbetsuppgift är att motivera och vägleda patienter till egenvård och livsstilsförändringar. Syftet med studien var att belysa astma-KOL-sköterskans erfarenheter av att stödja patienter med KOL till tobaksavvänjning. Metod En studie med kvalitativ ansats och deskriptiv design har gjorts. Sju astma-KOL-sköterskor som arbetar med tobaksavväjning har intervjuats via semistrukturerade intervjuer som spelades in och analyserades med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultatet visade vikten av att vara lyhörd och skapa en god relation med patienten samt att undvika ett anklagande förhållningssätt. Patientens motivation uppfattades vara den dominerande framgångsfaktorn. Motiverande samtal kunde väcka, stärka och upprätthålla motivation till rökstopp. Även socialt stöd och konsekvensinsikter uppgavs vara stora framgångsfaktorer. Patienters upplevelser av skam och skuld, psykisk ohälsa och ensamhet beskrevs vara hindrande faktorer som försvårade arbetet med tobaksavvänjning. Svårigheter att fånga upp patienter antogs höra samman med en bristande följsamhet till befintliga rutiner gällande att identifiera, registrera och remittera patienter till astma-KOL-mottagningen. Personal- och tidsbrist bidrog till upplevelser av stress och nedprioritering av astma-KOL-mottagningens arbete vilket uppgavs förhindra ett effektivt stöd till tobaksavvänjning. Slutsatsen är att astma-KOL-sköterskorna strävade efter att följa rekommenderade riktlinjer i sitt arbete. Arbetet upplevdes som komplext och var såväl stimulerande som frustrerande, samt att de önskade sig mer stöd från chefer i form av ytterligare tid för det specifika arbetet med tobaksavvänjning. / Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a costly public health problem with major risks of developing complications. Smoking is the single biggest cause of COPD and a successful tobacco cessation therefore provides great health benefits. District nurse's duty is to motivate and guide patients to self-care and lifestyle changes. The purposeof this study was to elucidate the Asthma-COPD nurse’sexperience in supporting patients with COPD to tobacco cessation. MethodA study with qualitative approach and descriptive design has been made. Seven Asthma-COPD nurses who work with tobacco cessationwere interviewed through semi-structured interviews were recorded and analyzed using qualitative content analysis.The resultsshowed the importance of being responsive and create a good relationship with the patient and to avoid an accusatory approach. The patient's motivation was perceived to be the dominant factor for success. Motivational interviewing could awaken, strengthen and sustain the motivation to quit smoking. Even social support and consistency insights were reported to be major success factors. Patients experiences of shame and guilt, mental illness and loneliness was described to be impeding factors that hampered the work on tobacco cessation. Difficulty in identifying patients were adopted to correlate with poor adherence to existing procedures in force to identify, register and refer patients for asthma-COPD clinic. Human resource and time constraints contributed to the experiences of stress and de-prioritization of asthma-COPD clinic's work, which was reported to prevent effective aid to smoking cessation. The conclusionis that asthma-COPD nurses strove to follow the recommended guidelines in their work. The work was perceived as complex and was both stimulating and frustrating, and that they wanted more support from managers in the form of additional time for the specific work on tobacco cessation.

The problem of this study is to determine the vitamin B-6 status of patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Erythrocyte aspartate transaminase assay was the method for measuring vitamin B-6 status. The vitamin B-6 status was examined in thirty subjects (ten COPD subjects and twenty control subjects). An unpaired t-test was used to compare the vitamin B-6 status of the COPD group versus the control group. Four determinants (percentage stimulation, ratio of basal to stimulated activity, basal activity, and stimulated activity) were used to determine vitamin B-6 status in both groups of subjects. Percentage stimulation and ratio of basal to stimulated activity were not significantly different (control group versus COPD group) at the .05 level. However, two of ten COPD subjects had values for percentage stimulation that were two standard deviations above the mean, indicating a poor B-6 status. In contrast, basal activity and stimulated activity of erythrocyte aspartate transaminase were found to be significantly lower at the .05 level in the COPD group than the control group. Therefore, the COPD subjects as a group had some biochemical characteristics of a lower level of vitamin B-6 than the controls.

Diploma thesis "Body schema in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease" is an experimental work which deals with body schema perception. As a part of the thesis there are particular tests of body schema included, which examine difference between control group and group of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Research part of the work deals with current findings about body schema and with findings about chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. There is more detailed analyze of musculoskeletal questions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease included. In an experimental part of the thesis there are comments on results of the body schema tests. The tests are focused on stereognosis, on position sense, on perception of self body size and on the ability to achieve isolated movement. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)