Outcomes from a respiratory coordinated care program (RCCP) providing community-based interventions for COPD patients from 1998 to 2006
| Autor: | Mary Dunford, Nick Spiliopoulos, Judith Donoghue, Elizabeth Clark |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Respiratory Therapy Copd patients Cost-Benefit Analysis medicine.medical_treatment Home Care Services Hospital-Based Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Patient Admission Nursing Outcome Assessment Health Care Pulmonary Medicine medicine Humans Pulmonary rehabilitation In patient Early discharge General Nursing Aged Patient Care Team Community based intervention COPD business.industry Continuity of Patient Care Length of Stay Community Health Nursing medicine.disease House Calls Nursing Evaluation Research Patient Satisfaction Hospital admission Female New South Wales Nurse Clinicians business Care program Program Evaluation |
| Zdroj: | Contemporary Nurse. 31:2-8 |
| ISSN: | 1839-3535 1037-6178 |
| DOI: | 10.5172/conu.673.31.1.2 |
| Popis: | The Respiratory Coordinated Care Program (RCCP) based at St George Hospital, is a specialised community program designed to assist people with advanced COPD (DRG groupings E65A/E65B) to live optimally well at home. The aim of the program is to reduce hospital admission rates, readmission rates, and hospital length of stay (LOS). Additional components of RCCP include a Pulmonary Rehabilitation program and an early discharge service. An improvement in patient outcomes over subsequent years 1998-2006, is demonstrated when compared to the national peer DRG with regards to LOS, readmission rates and hospital admissions per patient per year, pre and post recruitment to the RCCP. The chronic long term component of the RCCP shows that the mean LOS and the number of hospital admissions was significantly lower when compared to the national DRG average. Since its inception, the RCCP has consistently demonstrated a cost effective reduction in hospital admission rates, LOS and reduced readmission. |
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