DM interventions | Example |
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Optimal medication adherence | Tailoring of advices from international guidelines, e.g. frequent exacerbations necessitate inhaled corticosteroids; daily respiratory complaints necessitate long-acting bronchodilators |
Proper diagnosis | Performing and interpreting spirometry, assessment of disease burden using MRC and CCQ |
Motivational interviewing | Understanding and making use of patients’ personal goal in physical reactivation and lifestyle changes |
Smoking cessation counselling | Review of the recent literature, discussion of bottlenecks, applying behavioural techniques and drug therapy for smoking cessation |
Applying self-management plans | Teaching self-management techniques, including early recognition and treatment of exacerbations |
Guideline based physiotherapeutic reactivation | Using a patients’ personal goal, referral for physiotherapeutic reactivation in patients with MRC score >2. |
Dietary interventions | Early recognition and treatment of nutritionally depleted patients |