Association of Patient and Primary Care Provider Factors with Outpatient COPD Care Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Large gaps exist between guideline-recommended outpatient chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) care and clinical practice. Seeking to design effective interventions, we identified patient and primary care provider (PCP) characteristics associated with receiving evidence-based COPD care.

Methods

We performed an observational study of adults aged ≥ 40 years with clinically diagnosed COPD who received care at 2 University of Washington-affiliated primary care clinics between June 1, 2011, and June 1, 2013. Our primary outcome was the proportion of evidence-based outpatient COPD quality measures received through primary or pulmonary care. Among all patients, we assessed spirometry completion, respiratory symptom identification, smoking status ascertainment, oxy

SUBMITTER: Keller TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8893974 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature