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- Title
Towards regional progress: APSR 2022 Big Five Lung Diseases Workshop.
- Authors
Reynolds, Paul N.; Ansari, Sameera; Hernandez‐Sebastian, Rosalyn; Boonsawat, Watchara; Chen, Shih‐Yu; Lan, Landy; Yang, Dawei; Habib, G. M. Monsur; Mendoza‐Wi, Jennifer Ann; Huang, Hung‐Ling; Lan, Le Thi Tuyet; Vinh, Nguyen Nhu; De Leon, Maria Lowella F.; Chang, Anne B.
- Abstract
The approach taken to find a solution The Activating Primary Care COPD Patients with Multimorbidity (APCOM) program, is a self-management support program aimed to improve patient activation, COPD-related quality of life, COPD knowledge, inhaler device technique and self-management capacity of their multimorbidity. There was also a significant improvement ( I p i = 0.001) in the accuracy of patients' inhaler device technique, with 20 patients performing the technique correctly at 6 months follow-up compared to five patients at baseline. The Tuberculosis Diagnostic Clinic regularly convenes a group of radiologists and internists to decide on the activity of the tuberculosis status of problematic patients who are sputum TB Genexpert negative yet manifest with possible tuberculosis. Keywords: asthma; COPD; COVID-19; lung cancer; respiratory infections; tuberculosis EN asthma COPD COVID-19 lung cancer respiratory infections tuberculosis 807 816 10 07/21/23 20230801 NES 230801 B Background b : In conjunction with the Annual Scientific Congress of the APSR held in Seoul, South Korea in November 2022, a workshop was held which brought together representatives from the APSR, Union APR, WHO SEARO and WHO WPRO.
- Subjects
LUNG diseases; MEDICAL personnel; LATENT tuberculosis; LUNG cancer; PULMONARY nodules; METERED-dose inhalers
- Publication
Respirology, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 8, p807
- ISSN
1323-7799
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/resp.14548