Open AccessEffect of a telephonic alert system (Healthy outlook) for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cohort study with matched controls
Author(s) -
Adam Steventon,
Martin Bardsley,
Nicholas Mays
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdu042
Subject(s) - medicine , pulmonary disease , cohort , cohort study , epidemiology , environmental health , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine
Healthy Outlook was a telephonic alert system for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the UK. It used routine meteorological and communicable disease reports to identify times of increased risk to health. We tested its effect on hospital use and mortality.
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