Self-management interventions exert positive effects in patients with COPD on respiratory-related and all-cause hospitalizations and modest effects on 12-month health-related quality of life, supporting the implementation of self-management strategies in clinical practice. Benefits seem similar across the subgroups studied and limiting self-management interventions to specific patient subgroups cannot be recommended. Authors Jonkman NH, Westland H, TrappenburgContinue reading “Do self-management interventions in COPD patients work and which patients benefit most? An individual patient data meta-analysis”