The effect of an active implementation of a disease management programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on healthcare utilization--a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The growing population living with chronic conditions calls for efficient healthcare-planning and effective care. Implementing disease-management-programmes is one option for responding to this demand. Knowledge is scarce about the effect of implementation processes and their effect on patients; only few studies have reported the effectiveness of disease-management-programmes targeting patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The objective of this paper was to determine the effect on healthcare-utilization of an active implementation model for a disease-management-programme for patients with one of the major multimorbidity diseases, COPD.

Methods

The standard implementation of a new disease-management-programme for COPD was ongoing during the st

SUBMITTER: Smidth M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3851941 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature