Patterns of symptom deterioration can support multimorbidity management in COPD: Perspectives of patients and healthcare professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Comorbidities significantly complicate COPD management. Remote monitoring could aid real-time disease and symptom management, assisting both patients with multimorbidity and healthcare professionals (HCPs). This study aimed to explore how insight in patterns of symptom deterioration, derived from remote monitoring, could enhance multimorbid COPD management as perceived by patients and HCPs.

Methods

Using daily symptom data collected via a mobile diary in the prospective RE-SAMPLE cohort study, patterns of symptom deterioration of COPD, chronic heart failure, anxiety, and depression were visualized per patient (follow-up duration of ≥4 months). Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with Dutch patients with COPD and ≥1 comorbidity, and with HCPs fro

SUBMITTER: van Dijk SHB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12711060 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature