作者: Giovanni Ferrara , Fabrizio Luppi , Surinder S. Birring , Stefania Cerri , Antonella Caminati
DOI: 10.1183/16000617.0076-2017
关键词: Evidence-based medicine 、 MEDLINE 、 Disease 、 In patient 、 Intensive care medicine 、 Psychological intervention 、 Quality of life 、 Medicine 、 Natural history 、 Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
摘要: Best supportive care (BSC) is generally defined as all the interventions and multiprofessional approach aimed to improve optimise quality of life (QoL) in patients affected by progressive diseases. In this sense, it excludes might be complementary other directly targeting disease. BSC improves survival with different types cancer. Patients idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) experience a vast range symptoms during natural history disease have beneficial effect interventions. This review highlights current evidence on QoL gaps for clinical assessment treatment IPF patients. Very few or symptom control are currently supported well-designed studies. Sound methodology paramount evaluating IPF, well use validated tools measure specific group