Introduction
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the most common and lethal of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias. Although rare enough to be considered an orphan disease, the annual incidence of IPF is 94 cases per 100,000 person-years.1 IPF accounts for 15,000 to 40,000 deaths per year in the United States—and the incidence and mortality of IPF are increasing.1-3 The disease is characterized by an insidious onset and progressive decline in lung function because of fibrosis of the lung parenchyma. Despite the recent approvals of two new drugs, each shown to slow the decline in lung function, there is no therapeutic cure for IPF.4 The only treatment shown to improve survival is lung transplantation.5 Indeed, the prognosis of IPF is poor, with median survival estimates of 3.8 years or less.1
An international coalition of societies, including the American Thoracic Society, published comprehensive guidelines for the diagnosis and management of pulmonary fibrosis in 2011 and subsequently revised eight treatment recommendations in 2015.4,5 Despite the availability of these evidence-based guidelines, significant gaps in the care of patients with IPF remain. These gaps include delayed or inaccurate diagnosis, delayed referral to specialty care, limited use of recommended multidisciplinary (interprofessional) care, variable approaches to management, and poor patient-provider communication.6
The Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF), founded in 2000, established the Care Center Network (CCN) as its central effort to improve and standardize medical care in pulmonary fibrosis. As of December 2017, the PFF CCN includes 45 centers in 27 states. The PFF CCN has the potential to improve patient outcomes by sharing local expertise and clinical excellence in IPF diagnosis and disease management with other CCN sites and community clinicians. In practice, the CCN sites face diverse challenges, and recent discussion of these issues by stakeholders demonstrated the clear need for a consistent “top-down” strategy that incorporates current standards of practice and can be extended to all centers.7 Thus, one of the PFF’s CCN goals is to bring together the collective resources of centers and facilitate intercenter communication to establish current standards of practice in the management of interstitial lung disease (ILD).7
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Disclosures
This continuing education supplement was developed from interviews with interstitial lung disease (ILD) centers, both in the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Care Center Network and those outside of it. It is part of a three-phase curriculum, IPF Education for ILD Centers and Their Communities: Applying Behavior Change Theory to Facilitate and Measure Adoption of Current Standards of Practice Across Individuals and Systems in IPF. The supplement content brings together data from a patient survey and a previous CME/CE activity in this curriculum, “Practice Self-Assessment for Diagnosis and Management of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF),” found at: https://tinyurl.com/IPFAssess17, both of which were used to develop the interview questions for the interstitial lung disease centers.
This supplement was written by a team at Global Academy for Medical Education, LLC, Pro-Change Behavior Systems, and Stephanie Breslan, MS, medical writer.
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