TY -的T1 -支持家庭护理方案:key to increasing outpatient care? JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 508 LP - 508 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00165911 VL - 39 IS - 2 AU - Collins, A.M. AU - Wilks, S. AU - Wootton, D. AU - Gordon, S.B. Y1 - 2012/02/01 UR - //www.qdcxjkg.com/content/39/2/508.abstract N2 - To the Editors:We agree with Choudhury et al. [1] that more patients (18–20%) could be managed at home by family practitioners with the application of current guidelines, but we would like to comment that a greater number of patients (approximately 60%) could be managed at home with additional supported home-based care.As described by the authors, factors other than disease severity often prompt hospital admission. These include substance abuse, inability to cope alone at home, inability to take oral antibiotics, comorbidities and homelessness [2, 3]. The case for outpatient care based on severity markers is clear, but there is an urgent need for … ER -