Key result
This review discusses common comorbid conditions in COPD, vaccination updates, and smoking cessation, highlighting the pharmacist's role in optimizing outcomes.
Why the study?
COPD is frequently diagnosed alongside comorbid conditions, complicating therapy and contributing to adverse events and poor outcomes.
Senior care pharmacists play an important role in managing COPD comorbidities, updating vaccinations, and assisting with smoking cessation to improve patient outcomes.
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is often diagnosed with other comorbid conditions. This can complicate therapy overall by contributing to adverse events leading to poor outcomes to not only COPD, but other comorbid conditions. This manuscript will discuss common comorbid conditions often seen with COPD, update vaccination recommendations for COPD patients, and provide information regarding smoking cessation in COPD. The senior care pharmacist has an important role where they can recommend medication adjustments to potentially avoid these adverse events, immunize their patients appropriately, and provide assistance with smoking cessation to improve not only COPD outcomes but outcomes associated with other comorbid conditions.
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Clifford et al. (2023) conducted a review in Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with comorbidities. Management of comorbidities, vaccinations, and smoking cessation was evaluated. This review discusses common comorbid conditions in COPD, vaccination updates, and smoking cessation, highlighting the pharmacist's role in optimizing outcomes.
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