Michel Rouleau

TL;DR: A continuum of self-management for COPD patients provided by a trained health professional can significantly reduce the utilization of health care services and improve health status.

TL;DR: Self-monitored, home-based pulmonary rehabilitation would be as effective as outpatient, hospital-based rehabilitation for improving dyspnea at 1 year, according to a parallel-group, randomized, noninferiority, multicenter clinical trial in Canada.

TL;DR: A continuum of self-management for COPD patients provided by a trained health professional can significantly reduce the utilization of health care services and improve health status.

TL;DR: Nebulized budesonide may be an alternative to oral prednisolone in the treatment of nonacidotic exacerbations of COPD but further studies should be done to evaluate its long-term impact on clinical outcomes after an initial episode of COPd exacerbation.

TL;DR: The results confirm that treatment optimization coupled with sustained high quality care in motivated patients can lead to a significant decrease in asthma morbidity and structured asthma education significantly improved short-term compliance with treatment and knowledge about asthma, although it could not add extra benefit with regard to morbidity.