COPD Action Plan & Management Booklet
Overview
Organization: American Lung Association
Start Date: 04/2024
End Date: Ongoing
Primary Goal: Goal 2: Improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of COPD by improving the quality of care delivered across the health care continuum.
Secondary Goal(s):
Objective(s):
- Develop and encourage the use of a written, patient-centric COPD management plan tool, with appropriate cultural and health literacy considerations, which can be customized with input from the patient's health care provider(s)
Collaboration: the American Thoracic Society provided in put on the COPD Action Plan.
Activity Type: Patient education, Health care delivery, Material or product, Provider education
Activity Description
The COPD Action Plan and COPD Basics Booklet were created as a patient-centric COPD management plan tool that addressed appropriate cultural and healthliteracy considerations.
You can download the COPD Basics Booklet: https://www.lung.org/lung-health-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/copd/learn-about-copd
Audience
General Audience: Patients, Caregivers or family members, General Public, Health professionals
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: Urban, Suburban, Rural
Setting: Online
Cost and Funding Sources
This project was funded through a grant.Impact Analysis
We are still collecting metrics on this project.Advice or Lessons Learned
We are still compiling lessons learnedRelated Links
Contact Information
American Lung Association
Manager, Nationwide Health Programs
St Paul
Minnesota