ReviewNPJ primary care respiratory medicine2017
Breathing SPACE-a practical approach to the breathless patient.
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- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and the Management of Cardiopulmonary Risk in the UK: A Systematic Literature Review and Modified Delphi Study.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Pooled it
- Cost-effectiveness of a self-management maintenance programme following pulmonary rehabilitation: a UK randomised controlled trial for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Trial
- Pulmonary rehabilitation in Iranian outpatients with mustard gas lung disease: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ open · 2024Trial
- Lung Disease and Social Justice: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease as a Manifestation of Structural Violence.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Article
- Mediating role of coping styles on the relationship between personality types and mental disorders in cardiovascular patients: a cross-sectional study in Iran.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Assessment and diagnosis of chronic dyspnoea: a literature review.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2022Review
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- Living well with breathlessness: how clinicians can help.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2019Article
- Patient experience of lung volume reduction procedures for emphysema: a qualitative service improvement project.ERJ open research · 2017Article
- Adjuncts for sputum clearance in COPD: clinical consensus versus actual use.BMJ open respiratory research · 2017Article
- Risk factors and clinical characteristics of breathlessness in Australian adults: Data from the BOLD Australia study.Chronic respiratory diseaseArticle
- Physiotherapy assessment of breathlessness and disordered patterns of breathing: Defining a consensus on terminology and assessment.Chronic respiratory diseaseArticle
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Abstract
Breathlessness is a common symptom that may have multiple causes in any one individual and causes that may change over time. Breathlessness campaigns encourage people to see their General Practitioner if they are unduly breathless. Members of the London Respiratory Network collaborated to develop a tool that would encourage a holistic approach to breathlessness, which was applicable both at the time of diagnosis and during ongoing management. This has led to the development of the aide memoire "Breathing SPACE", which encompasses five key themes-smoking, pulmonary disease, anxiety/psychosocial factors, cardiac disease, and exercise/fitness. A particular concern was to ensure that high-value interventions (smoking cessation and exercise interventions) are prioritised across the life-course and throughout the course of disease management. The approach is relevant both to well people and in those with an underling diagnosis or diagnoses. The inclusion of anxiety draws attention to the importance of mental health issues. Parity of esteem requires the physical health problems of people with mental illness to be addressed. The SPACE mnemonic also addresses the problem of underdiagnosis of heart disease in people with lung disease and vice versa, as well as the systematic undertreatment of these conditions where they do co-occur.
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