Retrospective Evaluation of COPD Patient Care

The purpose of this project is to evaluate hospital utilisation, patient and service outcomes of a Respiratory Nursing Service to examine current clinical care of COPD. This evaluation aims to identify the important gaps in current clinical care of respiratory chronic disease nursing management. The primary outcomes of this evaluation is to determine the efficacy of clinical care in 2006, 2011, 2013 and 2015 and compare data to current Nursing Best practice guidelines for COPD through the quantification of hospital utilisation for hospital admission, average length of stay, readmission within 28 days, emergency service attendance, outpatient review, use of Hospital and Home (H@H), frequency of exacerbations, disease severity and progression (FEV1: GOLD Classification), number of contacts with the respiratory nursing service and type of contacts with the respiratory nursing service.