… care paradigms does little to optimize care in advancing chronic illness. Calls for improved
palliation in chronic lung disease mandate a review of related care … complex, care paradigm …

… pulmonary function, or everyday functioning among the three … The components of the costs
of caring for COPD patients con… by COPD patients (the costs of travel to and from health care …

… disease management. Such questionnaires provide important measurements that can assist
primary care physicians to capture the impact of COPD … chronic obstructive lung disease in …

… to live with COPD as an incurable and constantly progressing disease. By developing a …
well do we care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? …

… really of bronchitis and emphysema, it’s just a really, really bad case of lung disease’ (P05). …
in this study, such distinctions belied the everyday subtle changes in symptoms and inter-…

… he was otherwise well despite his continuous struggle to breathe freely every day.
Courageously, he quietly accepted the breathlessness and tried to continue with his everyday life. …

… in terms of medical and social care compared with a group with inoperable lung cancer. …
care services, none of the patients with COPD had access to a similar system of specialist care. …

<p>Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) presents … years and over with chronic
lung disease were recruited from a … Results indicate that people with COPD experience many …

… The traditional perspective of COPD is often one of treating disease with a view to hospital
… the care we provide to patients with advanced COPD and the care they want or need, care …

… The obligation to get a good life and ‘take better care of the new, more sensitive organ’ as
explained by the patients in this study has also been reported by patients undergoing a kidney …