Results of the Asthma and COPD Reviews
| Asthma | COPD | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Exacerbations in previous 12 months | Oral antibiotics and/or oral steroids per patient | 2.2 per patient | 3.1 per patient |
| Number of A&E attendances (n) | 14 | 33 | |
| Number of hospital admissions (n) | 5 | 31 | |
| Inhaler technique | Good technique (n) | 21% (11) | 42% (13) |
| Moderate technique | 19% (10) | 29% (9) | |
| Poor technique | 60% (31) | 29% (9) | |
| Beclomethasone dipropionate equivalence | pre review | 1656.6mcg | NA |
| post review | 1000.0mcg | NA | |
| Smoking history (n) | Current | 26.4% (14) | 29.0% (9) |
| Agreed to stop following review | 78.6% (11) | 77.8% (7) | |
| Ex smoker | 17.0% (9) | 71.0% (22) | |
| Mean pack year history | 29.4 | 37.4 | |
| Adherence to medicines in previous 12 months (mean) | Maintenance ICS/LABA or ICS | 6.4 inhalers | 10.3 inhalers |
| LAMA | NA | 10.8 inhalers | |
| Reliever inhaler | 8.3 inhalers | 8.7 inhalers | |
| On correct therapy based on symptoms, diagnosis and disease severity (n) | 26.9% (14) | 45.2% (14) | |
| If not on correct therapy, intervention made (n) | Step down | 59.6% (31) | NA |
| Stopping a part of treatment | 3.8% (2) | 25.8% (8) | |
| Querying the correct diagnosis | 5.8% (3) | 22.6% (7) | |
| Change drug class | NA | 9.7% (3) | |
| FEV1 % of predicted mean | NA | 52.2% | |
| ACT score mean | 16.9 | ||
| CAT score mean | 21.5 | ||