Table 2.
Interventions performed
| Interventions | Study, year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourbeau et al., 2003 (31) | Kwok et al., 2005 (30) | Casas et al., 2006 (29) | Bucknall et al., 2012 (32) | Fan et al., 2012 (28) | ||
| Discharge planning | 1 | |||||
| Disease education | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3* | ||
| Health counseling | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Inhaler use teaching | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3* | 3 | |
| Development of action plan | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | |
| Medications given for action plan | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Smoking cessation counseling | 3 | 3* | 3 | |||
| Assessment of comorbidities | 3 | |||||
| Referral to pulmonary rehabilitation | 3* | |||||
| Exercise program | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Referral to social services | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Communication with patient’s PCP | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3* | ||
| Transition navigator | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Home visits | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Follow-up telephone call | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Patient hotline | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3* | |
Definition of abbreviations: PCP = primary care provider.
Intervention setting: 1 = Interventions performed in the predischarge period. 2 = Interventions performed as bridging interventions. 3 = Interventions performed in the postdischarge period.
*
Interventions that were also implemented in some form in the control group. See Table E2 in the online supplement for further details.