Oxygen Therapy Use in Older Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Shawn P E Nishi, Wei Zhang, Yong-Fang Kuo and Gulshan Sharma

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-12

Abstract: Rationale: Oxygen therapy improves survival and function in severely hypoxemic chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients based on two landmark studies conducted over 40 years ago. We hypothesize that oxygen users in the current era may be very different. We examined trends and subject characteristics associated with oxygen therapy use from 2001–2010 in the United States. Methods: We examined Medicare beneficiaries with COPD who received oxygen from 2001 to 2010. COPD subjects were identified by: 1) ≥2 outpatient visits >30 days apart within one year with an encounter diagnosis of COPD; or 2) an acute care hospitalization with COPD as the primary or secondary discharge diagnosis. Oxygen therapy and sustained oxygen therapy were defined as ≥1 and ≥11 claims for oxygen, respectively, in the durable medical equipment file in a calendar year. Primary outcome measures were factors associated with oxygen therapy and sustained oxygen therapy over the study period. Results: Oxygen therapy increased from 33.7% in 2001 to 40.5% in 2010 (p-value of trend

Date: 2015
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