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    Early Palliative Care in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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    Peeler, Melissa
    Abstract
    Background: There are over 300 million people living with COPD and over 2.9 million people die annually from the disease. Palliative care is an underused resource for this population as it can help establish goals of care, manage disease symptoms, and improve patient’s quality of life. Unfortunately, patients diagnosed with COPD have many effective treatments for their illness but none of them are curative. Therefore, the concept of early use of palliative care is urgently needed to be more widely utilized and understood Purpose: The purpose of this project was to generate a tool to identify patients appropriate for a palliative care consult based on a COPD diagnosis, risk scores, demographics, and hospital admissions. Methods: This quality improvement project examined provider practices to determine if palliative care consults had been made in the past 18 months before project initiation. A tool was developed to identify patients diagnosed with COPD who were appropriate for palliative care consults based on inclusion criteria. The medical assistants were educated on how to identify patients through the tool. Providers ordered consults based on tool results. Results: The chart audit revealed a 100% increase in providers ordering palliative care consults for patients with COPD who were identified by the tool as appropriate. Implications for Practice: Research shows encouraging results with palliative care introduction early in the COPD. This project’s findings further reinforce and support the importance and impact palliative care and COPD have on each other through evidence-based practices, research, and theory; which will hopefully improve patient’s lives now and in the future.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7171
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     Palliative care; Chronic disease; Hospital admissions; Consult; End of Life; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary DIsease 
    Date
    2019-04-23
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    APA:
    Peeler, Melissa. (April 2019). Early Palliative Care in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (DNP Scholarly Project, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7171.)

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    Peeler, Melissa. Early Palliative Care in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. DNP Scholarly Project. East Carolina University, April 2019. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7171. August 10, 2022.
    Chicago:
    Peeler, Melissa, “Early Palliative Care in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease” (DNP Scholarly Project., East Carolina University, April 2019).
    AMA:
    Peeler, Melissa. Early Palliative Care in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [DNP Scholarly Project]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; April 2019.
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