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…or hospices. Patients with COPD experience many distressing symptoms including breathlessness, fatigue, depression, anxiety and insomnia. However, these symptoms are often poorly controlled and undertreated in advanced disease (Ahmadi 2016,…

…Zwerink 2014, Cannon 2016, Jolly 2016, Jonkman 2016b). These systematic reviews should be interpreted with caution due to the methodological weaknesses of the studies and heterogeneity of the interventions and…

…Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2016). Comprehensive treatment of tobacco dependence involves providing both behavioural support and pharmacotherapy (Zwar 2014). The 2016 update of the Cochrane Review (van Eerd 2016) on…

…are inconsistent and overall the quality of the evidence was rated very low (Mantoani 2016) [evidence level I]. A systematic review and meta-analysis (Lahham 2016) found that activity counselling, when…