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@article{Stone:2022:10.1038/s41533-022-00305-8,
author = {Stone, P and Hickman, K and Holmes, S and Feary, J and Quint, J},
doi = {10.1038/s41533-022-00305-8},
journal = {npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine},
title = {Comparison of COPD primary care in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41533-022-00305-8},
volume = {32},
year = {2022}
}

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AB  - Currently the National Asthma and COPD audit programme (NACAP) only undertakes audit of COPD primary care in Wales due to its near complete data coverage. We aimed to determine if the quality of COPD primary care in the other UK nations is comparable with Wales. We found that English, Scottish, and Northern Irish practices were significantly worse than Welsh practices at recording coded lung function parameters used in COPD diagnosis (ORs: 0.51 [0.43–0.59], 0.29 [0.23–0.36], 0.42 [0.31–0.58], respectively) and referring appropriate patients for pulmonary rehabilitation (ORs: 0.10 [0.09–0.11], 0.12 [0.11–0.14], 0.22 [0.19–0.25], respectively). Completing national audits of primary care in Wales only may have led to improvements in care, or at least improvements in the recording of care in Wales that are not occurring elsewhere in the UK. This highlights the potential importance of audit in improving care quality and accurate recording of that care.
AU  - Stone,P
AU  - Hickman,K
AU  - Holmes,S
AU  - Feary,J
AU  - Quint,J
DO  - 10.1038/s41533-022-00305-8
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 2055-1010
TI  - Comparison of COPD primary care in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
T2  - npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41533-022-00305-8
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/100298
VL  - 32
ER  -

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