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A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore

INTRODUCTION: The treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involves different care providers across care sites. This fragmentation of care increases the morbidity and mortality burden, as well as acute health services use. The COPD-Integrated Care Pathway (ICP) was designed and impl...

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Autores principales: Wu, Christine Xia, Tan, Woan Shin, See, Ryan Chor Kian, Yu, Weichang, Kwek, Lynette Siang Lim, Toh, Matthias Paul Han Sim, Chee, Thong Gan, Chua, Gerald Seng Wee
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25567064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005655
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author Wu, Christine Xia
Tan, Woan Shin
See, Ryan Chor Kian
Yu, Weichang
Kwek, Lynette Siang Lim
Toh, Matthias Paul Han Sim
Chee, Thong Gan
Chua, Gerald Seng Wee
author_facet Wu, Christine Xia
Tan, Woan Shin
See, Ryan Chor Kian
Yu, Weichang
Kwek, Lynette Siang Lim
Toh, Matthias Paul Han Sim
Chee, Thong Gan
Chua, Gerald Seng Wee
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description INTRODUCTION: The treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involves different care providers across care sites. This fragmentation of care increases the morbidity and mortality burden, as well as acute health services use. The COPD-Integrated Care Pathway (ICP) was designed and implemented to integrate the care across different sites from primary care to acute hospital and home. It aims to reduce the prevalence of COPD among the population in the catchment, reduce risk of hospital admissions, delay or prevent the progression of the disease and reduce mortality rate by adopting a coordinated and multidisciplinary approach to the management of the patients’ medical conditions. This study on the COPD-ICP programme is undertaken to determine the impact on processes of care, clinical outcomes and acute care utilisation. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This will be a retrospective, pre-post, matched-groups study to evaluate the effectiveness of the COPD-ICP programme in improving clinical outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Programme enrolees (intervention group) and non-enrolees (comparator group) will be matched using propensity scores. Administratively, we set 30% as our target for proportion admission difference between programme and non-programme patients. A sample size of 62 patients in each group will be needed for statistical comparisons to be made at 90% power. Adherence with recommended care elements will be measured at baseline and quarterly during 1-year follow-up. Risk of COPD-related hospitalisations as primary outcome, healthcare costs, disease progression and 1-year mortality during 1-year follow-up will be compared between the groups using generalised linear regression models. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This protocol describes the implementation and proposed evaluation of the COPD-ICP programme. The described study has received ethical approval from the NHG Domain Specific Review Board (DSRB Ref: 2013/01200). Results of the study will be reported through peer-review publications and presentations at healthcare conferences.
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spelling pubmed-42897262015-01-16 A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore Wu, Christine Xia Tan, Woan Shin See, Ryan Chor Kian Yu, Weichang Kwek, Lynette Siang Lim Toh, Matthias Paul Han Sim Chee, Thong Gan Chua, Gerald Seng Wee BMJ Open Health Services Research INTRODUCTION: The treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) involves different care providers across care sites. This fragmentation of care increases the morbidity and mortality burden, as well as acute health services use. The COPD-Integrated Care Pathway (ICP) was designed and implemented to integrate the care across different sites from primary care to acute hospital and home. It aims to reduce the prevalence of COPD among the population in the catchment, reduce risk of hospital admissions, delay or prevent the progression of the disease and reduce mortality rate by adopting a coordinated and multidisciplinary approach to the management of the patients’ medical conditions. This study on the COPD-ICP programme is undertaken to determine the impact on processes of care, clinical outcomes and acute care utilisation. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: This will be a retrospective, pre-post, matched-groups study to evaluate the effectiveness of the COPD-ICP programme in improving clinical outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Programme enrolees (intervention group) and non-enrolees (comparator group) will be matched using propensity scores. Administratively, we set 30% as our target for proportion admission difference between programme and non-programme patients. A sample size of 62 patients in each group will be needed for statistical comparisons to be made at 90% power. Adherence with recommended care elements will be measured at baseline and quarterly during 1-year follow-up. Risk of COPD-related hospitalisations as primary outcome, healthcare costs, disease progression and 1-year mortality during 1-year follow-up will be compared between the groups using generalised linear regression models. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This protocol describes the implementation and proposed evaluation of the COPD-ICP programme. The described study has received ethical approval from the NHG Domain Specific Review Board (DSRB Ref: 2013/01200). Results of the study will be reported through peer-review publications and presentations at healthcare conferences. BMJ Publishing Group 2015-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4289726/ /pubmed/25567064 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005655 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
spellingShingle Health Services Research
Wu, Christine Xia
Tan, Woan Shin
See, Ryan Chor Kian
Yu, Weichang
Kwek, Lynette Siang Lim
Toh, Matthias Paul Han Sim
Chee, Thong Gan
Chua, Gerald Seng Wee
A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore
title A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore
title_full A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore
title_fullStr A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore
title_short A matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an Integrated Care Pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Singapore
title_sort matched-group study protocol to evaluate the implementation of an integrated care pathway programme for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in singapore
topic Health Services Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289726/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25567064
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005655
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