Yu et al. reported that patients with COPD are more
likely to have a poor educational background and receive insufficient treatment. Disease management for these patients can be accomplished by increasing their accessibility to structured education programs and long-acting bronchodilator drug use. Although our health management program did not include long-acting bronchodilator drugs, it did provide targeted measures, including smoking cessation, psychological counseling, and a pulmonary rehabilitation program. Therefore, it improved the health status of subjects with COPD. Our findings suggest that this health management program could be applied to patients
with COPD in a community setting.