Table 1.
Hospital at home treatment programme |
Hospital care |
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On admission | |||||||||
Sex | Female | Female | Female | Male | Male | Male | Female | Female | Male |
Age (yrs) |
51 |
71 |
71 |
70 |
71 |
79 |
54 |
77 |
77 |
Marital status |
Married |
Widow |
Widow |
Married |
Married |
Married |
Divorced |
Widow |
Married |
Comorbidities |
Anxiety Depression |
Heart Disease Hypertension |
Heart Disease Hypertension |
Hypertension |
Diabetes mellitus Hypertension |
Diabetes mellitus Hypertension |
Anxiety |
Diabetes mellitus Inflammatory bowel disease |
Heart disease |
GOLD stage |
II |
I |
III |
III |
III |
II |
III |
III |
III |
Blood pressure (mmHg) |
150/80 |
180/80 |
140/75 |
155/90 |
150/90 |
140/70 |
140/75 |
150/80 |
97/53 |
Pulse rate min-1 |
108 |
56 |
87 |
75 |
88 |
61 |
105 |
110 |
60 |
PaO2 (kPa) |
8.27 |
8.45 |
10.9 |
7.57 |
11.4 |
8.93 |
9.18 |
8.74 |
8.13 |
Respiratory rate min-1 |
24 |
22 |
20 |
35 |
24 |
18 |
17 |
20 |
25 |
Number of drugs |
5 |
8 |
8 |
5 |
8 |
10 |
5 |
8 |
8 |
At 6 weeks control | |||||||||
FEV1 (l/s) (% of predicted) |
1.68 (59%) |
1.89 (97%) |
0.5 (31%) |
1.4 (37%) |
1.3 (40%) |
2.1 (75%) |
0.9 (39%) |
0.8 (41%) |
1.3 (42%) |
MRC dyspnoea scale |
5 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
BMI (kg/m2) |
41 |
33 |
24 |
38 |
33 |
30 |
30 |
26 |
24 |
6-minute walk test (m) | * | 508 | 272 | 500 | 125 | 510 | 280 | 350 | 500 |
IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; GOLD: Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lunge Disease; PaO2: arterial oxygen tension; FEV1: forced expiratory volume in one second; MRC: Medical Research Council dyspnoea scale, range (1–5); BMI: Body mass index; *not carried out due to a knee injury.