NICE has published draft guidance restricting use of antibiotics in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as in many cases the treatment is inappropriate and could lead to an ...

NICE has said that the standalone Doccla WellGuide patient app can be used only as part of a research study to support adults to manage their COPD themselves. These digital technologies can help ...

Further, if initial pharmacotherapy with LABA or LAMA after a COPD exacerbation does not elicit an appropriate patient response and if guideline concordance, inhaler technique, and comorbidities ...

In new draft guidance, NICE’s medical technologies advisory committee has recommended my mhealth’s myCOPD and SPACE for COPD developed by the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust – to ...

Critical assessment of evidence to help you make decisions. Advice, rather than formal NICE guidance.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is producing an Early Value Assessment on Digital technologies for Digital technologies to support self-management of COPD in the NHS ...