Special Features Editor’s Round-Up Hilary Pinnock Chair's perspective: Lessons on preventing exacerbations from the National COPD Audit Stephen Gaduzo New approaches to care which help to prevent exacerbations Francesca Robinson
This resource, whilst written by an experienced healthcare professional and peer reviewed at the time of publication, has not been reviewed within the last three years and therefore does not take account of recent evidence or guidance. The resource is provided as a reference tool only and the user should take into account the date that the item was published as being the date the material was considered accurate and complete.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Other
An opinion sheet providing information and advice on assessing fitness to fly for passengers with lung disease
Taxonomy: Archive, PCRU, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Special Features Editor’s highlights Hilary Pinnock Chair's perspective: Whose health is it anyway?
This PCRS-UK practice improvement worksheet provides a simple flow chart to aid healthcare practitioners in the diagnosis of asthma in children. It includes links to other related resources and materials.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Service development and improvement
EQUIP is a simple modular-based tool for practices, clinical commissioning groups, health boards and other groups working in primary care respiratory medicine. This module focuses on prevalence, early and accurate diagnosis of asthma and COPD
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Service development and improvement
EQUIP is a simple modular-based tool for practices, clinical commissioning groups, health boards and other groups working in primary care respiratory medicine.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, Clinical resource or information
This PGD has been developed for use by primary care nures in the supply/administration of salbutamol to adults and children of 2 years of age and older presenting with an acute episode of uncontrolled asthma.
This worksheet aims to provide practices with succinct advice on the accurate diagnosis of COPD. The worksheet includes a simple flow-chart to follow and sign-posts to other relevant PCRS-UK materials (hover over words to find links and simply click)
The COPD discharge care bundle is a short list of evidence-based actions which should be implemented prior to discharge for all patients who have been admitted with an acute exacerbation of COPD
This worksheet aims to provide some simple strategies to help identify high-impact COPD and support patients and carers
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, COPD, Service development and improvement, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
This worksheet offers succinct advice on the management of advanced COPD providing a simple flow chart of actions as well as links to relevant resources
This worksheet helps practices to identify patients with undiagnosed COPD in an effective, efficient and practical way by providing a simple flow chart to follow and related links for more information.
This worksheet helps to support clinicians to identify the sub-group of their patients who are being treated with triple therapy outside of current guideline recommendations and offers a method for bringing their therapy into line with a more cost effective and clinically appropriate strategy.
This worksheets provides advice on simple steps you can take in the practice in a simple flow-chart format to help assess patients with advanced COPD and ensure they are given appropriate support. The worksheets includes links to other relevant resources
This practice improvement worksheet helps to identify patients in whom control has been achieved, and risk minimised, so that inhaled corticosteroid dose reduction can be considered. The worksheet provides a simple step-by-step flow chart and links to related resources