Herchel Clarke|Matthew Voss
The role of a multidisciplinary student team in the community management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Stellenbosch University
determine whether communitybased multidisciplinary team consisting homebased caregivers supervised students could improve functional status quality life patients living chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd lowincome periurban setting south africathis quasiexperimental study conducted three months attention paid health literacy inhaler technique respiratory conditioning nutritionhealth literacy poor patients using inhalers correctly five 12 patients found exercising challenging withdrew study early remaining seven patients statistically significant improvements fev1 quality life scores seen three months improvements exercise tolerance bode prognostic index reach statistical significancea homebased multidisciplinary student team improve functional status quality life patients living copd lowincome setting approach offers suitable model communitybased service learning