I saw this firsthand in my time working as a hospitalist—patients with COPD would continue to churn through the emergency department with exacerbations, never getting the help they needed between ...

Since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 – commonly referred to as the ACA, hospitals and other healthcare facilities have been determined to meet the new standards of quality ...

Medication nonadherence among people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a result of affordability and lack of knowledge about medications, among other factors, and leads to increased ...

Although slightly fewer than 1% of hospitalizations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are complicated by sepsis, this complication increases the risk for in-hospital mortality fivefold, ...

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — WVU Medicine Thomas Hospitals opened a new Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center on ...

Findings from this multicenter randomized controlled trial showed that the transition bundle was associated with a lower risk of 7-day and 30-day hospital readmission from chronic obstructive ...

For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, healing from home may be as good as receiving treatment in hospital, according to new research. “We know that pulmonary rehab is a highly ...

Malnutrition significantly increases the 180-day hospital readmission rates among patients 65 years or older with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), highlighting the importance of ...

Hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have increased in Canada, in contrast with a decline in all-cause admissions, data suggest. In a retrospective study of data ...