Self-management and patient activation in COPD patients: An evidence summary of randomized controlled trials

This review has identified that there is paucity of literature on patient activation in tailored COPD self-management intervention. As a way forward, there is need to test a well-designed randomized controlled trial considering key points like patients characteristics, compliance, intervention delivery period, multi-morbidity conditions and measurement of the outcomes with standardized tools, might help to arrive at enable scientific conclusions.