MedPage Today July 5, 2024
— Nonphysician program linked to lower all- and specific-cause mortality risks
A regional primary care, nonphysician-based program for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was associated with improved longer-term survival, a propensity-matched cohort study in Hong Kong showed.
COPD patients seen in family medicine and general outpatient clinics that participated in Nurse and Allied Health Clinic-Respiratory Care (NAHC-Respiratory) had lower risks of all-cause mortality through roughly 7 years of follow-up compared with patients who had usual care at other public outpatient clinics (32.1% vs 37.2%, HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.78-0.90), reported Kailu Wang, PhD, of the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong, and co-authors.
NAHC-Respiratory was also associated with significant reductions in various cause-specific deaths:
- Pneumonia mortality (9.6% vs...
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