A study has found that admissions and hospital bed days were both reduced by 50% for high-risk COPD patients using a digital support service, reducing the burden on over-stretched healthcare services. Using a digital support service can reduce the time patients with high-risk chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) spend in hospital each year, according to NHS researchers. COPD, a long-term progressive lung disease that causes narrowing of the airways and difficulty breathing, affects more than 1.2 million people in the UK and almost 30,000 die from it each year. The disease is predicted to cost the NHS £2.5 billion each year by 2030, mainly because of the expense of emergency hospital admissions due to COPD exacerbations. The research was focused on how to support patients with self-management. Using AI and data to support patients The study published this week in the International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease found that hospital admissions and bed days
The Senior Men’s Club of Aiken will meet at noon today at the Woodside Country Club, 1000 Woodside Plantation Drive. The guest speaker will be Jim McNair, owner of Cedar
The Beech Island Historical Society will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in the society s history and visitor s center, 144 Old Jackson Highway, Beech Island. Local author Beth Self Francis will
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