Do financial incentives improve key COPD outcomes?

In this podcast, we discuss the impact of Best Practice Tariffs (BPT) in improving outcomes for people with COPD admitted to hospital following an acute exacerbation. The key question was to understand if the combination of specialist review within 24 hours and a discharge care bundle incentivised by the English COPD BPT scheme was associated with improved mortality and readmission rates for those admitted with an acute exacerbation of COPD. Thorax Multimedia Editor, Rachael Moses, talks to Philip Stone, from the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK. Read the paper (https://thorax.bmj.com/content/early/2021/07/15/thoraxjnl-2021-216880) and subscribe to the Thorax Podcast on your favourite platform.