COPD Follow Up MedicalTemplate
The chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) follow up MedicalTemplate is suitable for any health care provider that manages patients with COPD.
This one page template contains detailed checklists for the severity of COPD symptoms, current and planned COPD therapy, and other features helpful for a comprehensive COPD treatment plan.
- E&M Documentation Template
- Digital Health Record
- Digital Signature Option
- Reminders
- Labs
- Therapeutic options
- Severity of illness
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Impact of COPD on the Healthcare system
The National Center for Health Statistics reports COPD to be the 4th leading cause of death in the Unites States, causing 124,000 deaths per year. Over 24 million Americans have COPD, and women are more likely than men to die from COPD. The major risk factor for developing and dying from COPD is tobacco smoking. COPD is responsible for over 1 million hospital admissions and $37 billion dollars in healthcare costs each year. Due to the large numbers of Americans with COPD and the heath care costs associated with the treatment of COPD, this chronic lung disease is a focus of many quality improvement initiatives and pay for performance programs.
E & M Documentation Template
The COPD follow up evaluation MedicalTemplate contains prompters and space for all the required elements for a E&M encounter.
- History
- Chief complaint
- History of present illness
- Past medical and surgical history
- Social history
- Family history
- Review of systems
- Examination
- Medical Decision Making
- Review of data (labs, tests, imaging, old records)
- Assessment and plan
- 1997
Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management
Services
- 1995
Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management
Services
Digital Health Record
The COPD follow up evaluation MedicalTemplate functions like all other PDF files, but they have editable text fields and working checkboxes. This allows information to be typed in or pasted from other applications to fill out the template.Filled MedicalTemplates can be printed and saved to a computer, USB drive, CD, DVD, or other storage device to create a digital health record for your patients.
To learn more about how MedicalTemplates can be used as a digital health record, click here.
Digital Signature Enabled
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Pay for Performance
The COPD patient encounter template was designed to include Clinical Performance Measures for COPD developed by the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement.
The Clinical Performance Measures for
COPD can be downloaded from
here.
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MedicalTemplates are in the Adobe PDF format, which requires the free Adobe Reader. With Adobe Reader, these templates can be printed as many times as needed on paper meeting your specifications or the specifications of any clinic, hospital, or other health care facility.
