Poor treatment of asthma and COPD puts a huge burden on the NHS. For example, £1 billion is spent on asthma treatment in the UK each year and represents 60,000 to 65,000 hospital admissions. In ...

Compared with control patients, invited patients spent less out-of-pocket. Patients with COPD had better inhaler adherence when invited to enroll in a program that lowers cost sharing for ...

Setting: The Lung Health Study, a 5-year clinical trial to evaluate the effect of intensive smoking cessation counseling and regular use of an inhaled bronchodilator on the progression of COPD.