Table 1 Characteristics
Hospital at home treatment programme | Hospital care | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
On admission | |||||||||
Sex | Female | Female | Female | Male | Male | Male | Female | Female | Male |
Age (yrs) | 51 | 71 | 71 | 70 | 71 | 79 | 54 | 77 | 77 |
Marital status | Married | Widow | Widow | Married | Married | Married | Divorced | Widow | Married |
Comorbidities | Anxiety Depression | Heart Disease Hypertension | Heart Disease Hypertension | Hypertension | Diabetes mellitus Hypertension | Diabetes mellitus Hypertension | Anxiety | Diabetes mellitus Inflammatory bowel disease | Heart disease |
GOLD stage | II | I | III | III | III | II | III | III | III |
Blood pressure (mmHg) | 150/80 | 180/80 | 140/75 | 155/90 | 150/90 | 140/70 | 140/75 | 150/80 | 97/53 |
Pulse rate min-1 | 108 | 56 | 87 | 75 | 88 | 61 | 105 | 110 | 60 |
PaO2 (kPa) | 8.27 | 8.45 | 10.9 | 7.57 | 11.4 | 8.93 | 9.18 | 8.74 | 8.13 |
Respiratory rate min-1 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 35 | 24 | 18 | 17 | 20 | 25 |
Number of drugs | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 8 | 8 |
At 6 weeks control | |||||||||
FEV1 (l/s) (% of predicted) | 1.68 (59%) | 1.89 (97%) | 0.5 (31%) | 1.4 (37%) | 1.3 (40%) | 2.1 (75%) | 0.9 (39%) | 0.8 (41%) | 1.3 (42%) |
MRC dyspnoea scale | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
BMI (kg/m2) | 41 | 33 | 24 | 38 | 33 | 30 | 30 | 26 | 24 |
6-minute walk test (m) | * | 508 | 272 | 500 | 125 | 510 | 280 | 350 | 500 |