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COPD: Health Care Utilisation Patterns with Different Disease Management Interventions.

Edwin K Luk^1,2, Anastasia F Hutchinson^3,4, Mark Tacey^5,6,7

¹Department of Rehabilitation, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Park Campus 34 Poplar Road, Parkville, VIC, 3052, Australia. edwin.luk@mh.org.au.

|May 6, 2017

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Integrated disease management (IDM) reduced healthcare use in COPD patients. Completing pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) alongside IDM improved survival, but did not further reduce healthcare utilization.

Keywords:

Disease management Hospitalisation Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive Readmission Rehabilitation

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Background:

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) management is costly, driven by acute healthcare utilization.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) and Integrated Disease Management (IDM) are common interventions.
Evidence for PR and IDM on healthcare utilization is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if IDM and PR reduce acute healthcare utilization in COPD patients.
To identify factors associated with acute healthcare utilization and mortality.

Main Methods:

Retrospective cohort study of 517 COPD patients over 10 years.
Patients received IDM, with some also offered an 8-week PR program.
Healthcare utilization data (inpatient, ED, outpatient) were matched with hospital records.

Main Results:

Both IDM-only and IDM+PR groups showed reduced healthcare utilization, with greater reductions in the IDM-only group.
Patients completing PR alongside IDM demonstrated a survival benefit (HR 0.68).
PR completers were younger and had fewer comorbidities compared to those referred to PR.

Conclusions:

IDM effectively reduces healthcare utilization in COPD patients.
Completing PR in addition to IDM improves survival.
PR did not further reduce healthcare usage beyond the benefits of IDM alone.