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Fernando Figueroa Rodriguez1, Alfredo Selim2, Bernardo Selim1
1Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic Center for Sleep Medicine, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street Southwest, Rochester, MN 55905, USA.
Abstract:
Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) is widely accepted as an intervention that helps patients with cardiopulmonary diseases and sleep-related breathing disorders transition from hospital to home. NIV can alleviate symptoms, normalize arterial blood gases, improve health-related quality of life, reduce hospital readmissions, and mortality in certain patient groups. However, reimbursement constraints and the lack of standardized discharge pathways may compromise the effectiveness of this process and the quality of care in this fragile population.
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