Can nurses successfully diagnose and manage patients with COPD?

Authors

Paul Enright, University of Arizona
Elizabeth J. Halcomb, University of WollongongFollow
Luis Torre-Bouscoulet, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias (INER)

RIS ID

88112

Publication Details

Enright, P., Halcomb, E. & Torre-Bouscoulet, L. (2014). Can nurses successfully diagnose and manage patients with COPD?. Primary Care Respiratory Journal, 23 (1), 12-13.

Abstract

COPD is a highly prevalent chronic disease which can cost a country hundreds of millions of dollars per year. So it seems appropriate for as much of the diagnosis and care of patients with COPD to be managed by the most cost-effective health care providers as possible whilst maintaining quality outcomes.