World COPD Day

Today is World COPD Day 2017. Cochrane Airways marks this occasion by bringing together a collection of blogs and blogshots by Cochrane UK. Cochrane Airways publishes systematic reviews on COPD.

Blogs

Evidence on antibiotics for exacerbations of COPD - with some bits missing

Nutritional support may be useful for people with stable COPD

Staying sexual with chronic illness

3 things to keep people with COPD well and out of hospital

Blogshots

Self management interventions that include a COPD exacerbation action plan are associated with improvements in health-related quality of life and probably reduce the likelihood of respiratory-related hospital admissions

NIV for COPD

NIV is probably beneficial as a first-line intervention with usual care for reducing the likelihood of death and endotracheal intubation in people with acute hypercapnic respiratory failure secondary to an exacerbation of COPD based on 17 studies with over 1200 peopl

Pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD

Pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD probably relieves shortness of breath and improves exercise capacity, and may also improve fatigue, emotional wellbeing and sense of control over the disease on completion of the programme. Based on a Cochrane Review of 65 studies on over 3800 people.

Interventions delivered by computer and mobile phones for self-management of COPD may improve physical activity and quality of life. They probably make little or no difference to the number of individuals quitting smoking, and may make little or no difference to the number of acute exacerbations or hospital admissions. None of the studies looked at thier effects on self-efficacy or anxiety or depression. Based on a Cochrane review of 3 studies and 557 people with COPD.

Pulmonary rehabilitation improves helath-related quality of life and exercise capacity in people who have been hospitalised with an exacerbation of COPD. Cochrane review based on 20 studies with 1477 people.

15 Nov 2017