Experience on the Management of Patients with Asthma or Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease During the COVID-19 Pandemic: the NEUMOBIAL Study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are treatable but greatly underdiagnosed disorders. Telemedicine made it possible to continue diagnosis, follow-up visits and treatment modifications during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present study describes the management of patients with COPD and asthma, and their treatments during the pandemic from the pulmonologist's perspective.

Methods

NEUMOBIAL was an ecological study with aggregated data. A total of 279 Spanish pulmonologists answered a 60-question survey about their last 10 patients, focused on the characterisation and changes in visits and treatments during the pandemic.

Results

Most pulmonologists (72.0%) considered that the pandemic negatively altered the diagnosis and follow-up of patien

SUBMITTER: Landete P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9483441 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature