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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,…
…differences in 6MWD, anxiety and depression, hospital admissions and mortality (Majothi 2015, Cannon 2016, Jolly 2016, Jonkman 2016b). A systematic review and meta-analysis of nurse-led COPD interventions concluded that such…
…weeks following discharge (Tsai 2016). Although there was a significant improvement in physical activity at one week following discharge when compared to activity levels during admission, the level of physical…