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The Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool: a potential tool to improve quality of life of COPD patients in Germany?
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Authors
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O. van Schayck
- CAPHRI, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University Department of Familiy Medicine, Maastricht, Niederlande
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D. Kotz
- Institute of General Practice, Addiction Research and Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Deutschland; CAPHRI, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University Department of Familiy Medicine, Maastricht, Niederlande
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A. Schneider
- Institut für Allgemeinmedizin, Technische Universität München, München, Deutschland
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N. Donner-Banzhoff
- Zentrum für Methodenwissenschaften und Gesundheitsforschung, Abteilung für Allgemeinmedizin, Präventive und Rehabilitative Medizin, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Deutschland
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A. Slok
- CAPHRI, Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University Department of Familiy Medicine, Maastricht, Niederlande
| Published: | September 5, 2017 |
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Background: In the Netherlands, the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC)-tool has been developed to measure burden of disease in COPD-patients, and to facilitate shared-decision-making and the formulation of an individual treatmentplan. Outcomes of a cluster-RCT showed that using the tool results in a significant increase in patients with a clinically relevant improvement in disease-specific quality-of-life. The intervention-group also rated the experienced quality-of-care as better [1]. The ABC-tool is currently being implemented in Dutch healthcare. The tool might also be useful to improve the quality-of-care for COPD-patients in Germany.
Target audience: Healthcare providers and researchers in primary care.
Didactic method: The workshop will be moderated by Prof. Kotz:
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- Presentation about the rationale behind the ABC-tool and its development and evaluation in the Dutch healthcare-system, by Prof.van Schayck.
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- Critical reflection on the ABC-tool regarding its potential implementation in the German healthcare-system, by Prof. Schneider and Prof. Donner-Banzhoff.
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- Interactive discussion on opportunities and threats of the ABC-tool in Germany.
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- Summary and concluding remarks: how to proceed?
Objectice: A critical discussion about the opportunities and threats of implementing the ABC-tool in the German healthcare-system, both from a scientific and clinical perspective.
Number of participants: 15–20
Short introduction of the workshop chairs:
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- DK is professor in general practice with a main focus on addiction research and clinical epidemiology at the Institute of General-Practice at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, and was involved with the effect-evaluation of the ABC-tool in the Netherlands
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- OvS is professor of preventive medicine at University Maastricht. He was appointed by the Dutch Lung Alliance as chair of a national expert-group responsible for the development of the ABC-tool.
References
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- Slok AH, Kotz D, van Breukelen G, Chavannes NH, Rutten-van Mölken MP, Kerstjens HA, van der Molen T, Asijee GM, Dekhuijzen PN, Holverda S, Salomé PL, Goossens LM, Twellaar M, In 't Veen JC, van Schayck OC. Effectiveness of the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool on health-related quality of life in patients with COPD: a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary and hospital care. BMJ Open. 2016 Jul 11;6(7):e011519. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011519
