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Return to all articles Return to previous page Best Practices in Managing Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): FirstHealth of the Carolinas Case Study Resource Type: Case Studies 0 Comments This case study highlights FirstHealth of the Carolinas' Hospital to Home Transitions of Care pilot program. Essential elements of this initiative include revamped, evidence-based COPD patient education materials, spirometry training for primary care physicians; the use of discharge order sets; pulmonary rehabilitation; and the implementation a modified set of internal processes and training to execute the program successfully. Both results and lessons learned are included. This resource will be most helpful to health care providers and health systems administrators interested in implementing care improvement and readmissions reduction programs at their organizations. View Resource Citation: American Medical Group Association. Best Practices in Managing Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): FirstHealth of the Carolinas Case Study. American Medical Group Association website. 2014. https://www.amga.org/AMGA/media/PDFs/Performance%20Improvement%20and%20Publications/Best%20Practices%20and%20Analytics/Learning%20Collaboratives/COPD/2012-2013/firstHealth.pdf. Accessed March 25, 2020. ambulatory care care coordination caregiver & community diagnosis evaluation & quality improvement exacerbations exercise hospitalization oxygen patient education patient experience post-acute care promising practices public policy pulmonary rehabilitation readmission treatment No Comments You need to login to comment.
Return to all articles Return to previous page Best Practices in Managing Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): FirstHealth of the Carolinas Case Study Resource Type: Case Studies 0 Comments This case study highlights FirstHealth of the Carolinas' Hospital to Home Transitions of Care pilot program. Essential elements of this initiative include revamped, evidence-based COPD patient education materials, spirometry training for primary care physicians; the use of discharge order sets; pulmonary rehabilitation; and the implementation a modified set of internal processes and training to execute the program successfully. Both results and lessons learned are included. This resource will be most helpful to health care providers and health systems administrators interested in implementing care improvement and readmissions reduction programs at their organizations. View Resource Citation: American Medical Group Association. Best Practices in Managing Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD): FirstHealth of the Carolinas Case Study. American Medical Group Association website. 2014. https://www.amga.org/AMGA/media/PDFs/Performance%20Improvement%20and%20Publications/Best%20Practices%20and%20Analytics/Learning%20Collaboratives/COPD/2012-2013/firstHealth.pdf. Accessed March 25, 2020. ambulatory care care coordination caregiver & community diagnosis evaluation & quality improvement exacerbations exercise hospitalization oxygen patient education patient experience post-acute care promising practices public policy pulmonary rehabilitation readmission treatment No Comments You need to login to comment.
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