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Table 9 Aims of teleassistance

From: The clinical and integrated management of COPD. An official document of AIMAR (Interdisciplinary Association for Research in Lung Disease), AIPO (Italian Association of Hospital Pulmonologists), SIMER (Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine), SIMG (Italian Society of General Medicine)

Improve patient quality of life

Improve family member’s quality of life

Increase the degree of patients safety at home

Avoid hospitalizations

Reduce outpatient general practitioner consultations

Reduce outpatient respiratory specialist consultation

Reduce need for patient transferral, and associated costs

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