The Importance of Self-Management in the Context of Personalized Care in COPD

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Table 1 Key Recommendations for Self-Management

Recommendation 1	Better education of HCPs delivering care to people with COPD (both from a disease-specific perspective and a consultation-skills perspective) to deliver better shared care management
Recommendation 2	A change in how healthcare is delivered to encourage excellence by changing targets and priorities to more patient-focused outcomes
Recommendation 3	Focus on healthcare resources—using primary care networks to allow best practice sharing and make professional training and education accessible to HCPs, and to patients and their carers
Recommendation 4	Development of skills gap audits to reflect the barriers to providing better access to patient-centered education and self-management
Recommendation 5	An enhanced first consultation given by appropriately qualified clinicians to provide correct diagnosis and management, patient education and engagement
Recommendation 6	Negotiation and sharing of self-management plan at the point of diagnosis

Abbreviations: COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; HCP, healthcare professional.

Figure 1 Self-management strategies. (A) Factors influencing effectiveness of self-management programs. (B) Components of educational programs.