Topic
COPD
Diagnosis and the annual review, written around the interventions that actually change outcomes rather than the inhaler.
Written against NICE NG115, GOLD report.
- Patient information COPD - information for patients What COPD is, and the four things that make the biggest difference, in the order they make it.
- Patient information COPD rescue pack instructions When to start the emergency antibiotics and steroids, when not to, and what to do straight afterwards.
- Consultation template COPD review The review that checks the things that change outcomes before it checks the inhaler, and asks the oxygen and palliative questions on time.
- Consultation template New COPD patient First assessment, with the spirometry that confirms it, the exacerbation history that grades it, and the interventions that actually change outcomes.