Palliative medicine
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Palliative medicine · Jun 2023
Randomized Controlled TrialThe effect of an integrated palliative care intervention on quality of life and acute healthcare use in patients with COPD: Results of the COMPASSION cluster randomized controlled trial.
COPD causes high morbidity and mortality, emphasizing the need for palliative care. ⋯ We found no evidence that palliative care improves quality of life in patients with COPD. However, it can potentially reduce acute healthcare use. The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic led to suboptimal implementation and insufficient power, and may have affected some of our findings.