Care pathways versus usual care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Mahtab Pajand Birjandi; Omar Ammous; Regina Kampo; Sarah Stanzel; Maximilian Wollsching-Strobel; Tim Mathes

doi:10.1002/14651858.CD015800

Care pathways versus usual care for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2024 Aug 14;8(8):CD015800. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015800.

Authors

Mahtab Pajand Birjandi¹, Omar Ammous², Regina Kampo², Sarah Stanzel³, Maximilian Wollsching-Strobel³, Tim Mathes²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of medicine, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.
² Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
³ Department of Pneumology, Cologne Merheim Hospital, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH, Witten/Herdecke University, Cologne, Germany.

Abstract

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of care pathways (CPs) compared to usual care/no CPs for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

MeSH terms

Critical Pathways*
Humans
Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive* / therapy
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
Systematic Reviews as Topic