Action plan vs usual care: Hospitalisations and emergency visits for COPD/100 patient‐years (action plan + phone
Action plan leads to lower hospitalisations and emergency visits for COPD/100 patient‐years… compared with usual care (high certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Action plan vs usual care Hospitalisations and emergency visits for COPD/100 patient‐years (action plan + phone · individuals with exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Action plan leads to lower hospitalisations and emergency visits for COPD/100 patient‐years… compared with usual care (high certainty). Action plans with brief patient education for exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Rate ratio 0.59 [0.44, 0.79] | 1 study · 743 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action plans with brief patient education for exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease 2016 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.