McKnight’s Senior Living January 23, 2024
(HealthDay News) — Use of a nurse and social worker palliative telecare team is associated with clinically meaningful improvements in quality of life at six months for adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure or interstitial lung disease (ILD) versus usual care, according to a study published in the Jan. 16 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
David B. Bekelman, MD, MPH, from the Eastern Colorado Health Care System in Aurora, and colleagues evaluated the effect of a nurse and social worker palliative telecare team on quality of life in outpatients with COPD, heart failure and ILD versus usual care. Analysis included 306 participants randomly assigned to the intervention (six phone calls with a nurse...
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