Effectiveness and Economic Evaluation of Hospital-Outreach Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

© 2020 Zhang et al..

Objective: Hospital-outreach pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) can improve health status and reduce health-care utilization by patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, its long-term effects and costs versus benefits are still not clear. This study was conducted to develop, deliver, and evaluate the effects and monetary savings of a hospital-outreach PR program for patients with COPD.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted. Patients with COPD (n=208) were randomly assigned to the hospital-outreach PR program (treatment) or treatment as usual (control). The treatment group received a 3-month intensive intervention, including supervised physical exercise, smoking cessation, self-management education, and psychosocial support, followed by long-term access to a nurse through telephone follow-up and home visits up to 24 months. The control group received routine care, including discharge education and a self-management education brochure. Main outcomes were collected at 3, 6, 12, and 24 -months postrandomization. Primary outcomes included health-care utilization (ie, readmission rates, times, and days, and emergency department visits) and medical costs. Secondary outcomes included lung function (ie, FEV1, FEV1% predicted, FVC), dyspnea (mMCR), exercise capacity (6MWD), impact on quality of life (CAT), and self-management (CSMS).

Results: At the end of 24 months, 85 (81.7%) in the treatment group and 89 (85.6%) in the control group had completed the whole program. Compared with the control group, patients in the treatment group had lower readmission rates, times, and days at 6 and 12 months and during 12-24 months. Regarding costs during the 2 years, the program achieved CN¥3,655.94 medical  savings per patient per year, and every ¥1 spent on the program led to ¥3.29 insavings. Patients in the treatment group achieved improvements in FEV1, FEV1% predicted, exercise capacity, and self-management. It also achieved relief of dyspnea symptoms and improvement in COPD's impact on quality of life.

Conclusion: The hospital-outreach PR program for patients with COPD achieved reductions in health-care utilization, monetary savings, and improvements in patient health outcomes. The effects of the program were sustained for at least 2 years.

Trial Registration: This trial was registered at the Chinese Clinical Trial Registry (ChiCTR-TRC-14005108).

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - 15(2020) vom: 28., Seite 1071-1083

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhang, Aidi [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Lianhong [VerfasserIn]
Long, Lu [VerfasserIn]
Yan, Jin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Chun [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Sucui [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Xiaowan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Case Reports
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Effects
Hospital-outreach intervention
Pulmonary rehabilitation
Randomized Controlled Trial
Savings

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Date Completed 25.06.2021

Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.2147/COPD.S239841

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311026125