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Optimizing safety of COPD treatments: role of the nurse practitioner

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, February 2013
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (89th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (81st percentile)

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Title
Optimizing safety of COPD treatments: role of the nurse practitioner
Published in
Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, February 2013
DOI 10.2147/jmdh.s35711
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Authors

Pamela Spencer, Nicola A Hanania

Abstract

As the prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) continues to grow, management of the disease still faces considerable challenges. Despite the existence of effective pharmacological treatments, patient adherence is often poor. Side effects of medications and patients' concerns about potential side effects may contribute to poor adherence. Situated as they are at the frontline of patient care in the clinic, nurse practitioners play an important role in the management of COPD. This review discusses the current literature on medications available for management of COPD, focusing primarily on their safety and tolerability. This information can be particularly important for nurse practitioners, who can be invaluable in identifying side effects, and providing education to patients with COPD on the available treatments and the associated side effects. By helping patients to understand the balance of benefits and risks of treatment, nurse practitioners may be able to help improve adherence and thereby improve patient outcomes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Canada 1 1%
Unknown 71 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 11 15%
Student > Master 10 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 11%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Postgraduate 6 8%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 20 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 26%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 1%
Philosophy 1 1%
Other 7 9%
Unknown 19 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 August 2014.
All research outputs
#2,803,384
of 22,696,971 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
#90
of 806 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,604
of 282,539 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
#2
of 11 outputs
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