Researchers found the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale to be a useful tool for anxiety assessment in routine COPD management. Anxiety is a well-documented comorbidity in patients with chronic ...

2 Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation NHS Trust, London, UK 3 Greenwich Primary Care Trust, London, UK 4 Croydon Primary Care Trust, London, UK Background The COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), an irreversible form of lung disease, is treated with prescription drugs, lifestyle changes, rehabilitation therapies, and surgery in certain cases. The ...

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale scores (HADS), and COPD Assessment Tool (CAT) scores. All costs, unless stated otherwise, were recorded at the patient level by multiplying patient-level resource ...

This is utilizing NHS resources that could be allocated to another priority area if these people are provided with the tools to self-manage their condition ... The NICE early value assessment will ...

Inhalers for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are a mainstay of treatment. These medications are inhaled through your mouth so they can directly reach your lungs. If your healthcare ...

A project to pick up undiagnosed COPD in people who had attended lung health checks found 70% of those offered an assessment had the condition. Those involved in the scheme said the findings suggest ...

This was a single-center, prospective study. Patients with COPD were included if their post-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV 1)/forced vital capacity ratio was <0.7 and FEV 1 ...

Keywords: COPD Physiopathology, Animal models of COPD, Molecular models of COPD, Transgenic models of COPD, Ex-vivo models of COPD, Cellular targets in COPD, Molecular targets in COPD Important Note: ...

A total of 161 COPD patients completed at least one CAT questionnaire at baseline, 75 at exacerbation and 52 of these patients completed the CAT questionnaire daily during exacerbation recovery.

Researchers found the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to be a useful tool for anxiety assessment in routine COPD management.