▪ Establish a partnership with the patient to provide a patient-centered, personalized medicine care plan | ▪ Provide supplemental oxygen if indicated (keep SpO2 ≥90%) |
▪ Provide patients with: |   · During exertion |
  · Nocturnal during sleep | |
 • Useful information concerning   the nature of their disease   and its prognosis |   · Continuous if indicated |
 • Treatment options   accompanied by   thoughtful counseling | ▪ Detect and treat co-morbidities and complications: |
  · Enrollment in clinical trials |   · Gastroesophageal reflux    disease |
  · Off-label therapies    (e.g. corticosteroids,    cytoxic drugs, other agents) |   · Cardiovascular disease |
  · Lung transplantation |   · Drug toxicity (if treated) |
  · Best supportive care |   · Sleep-disordered breathing |
▪ Use disease-specific monitoring (for prognostication and treatment decisions) |   · Secondary pulmonary    hypertension |
  · Pulmonary function testing    (FVC, DLCO, 6-MWT) |   · Metabolic bone disease    (osteopenia, osteoporosis) |
  · Thoracic imaging |   · Anemia |
  · Dyspnea score |   · Anxiety & depression |
â–ª Pulmonary rehabilitation (optimal exercise program, patient education) | â–ª Maintain ideal body-mass index (weight reduction if obese, improved nutrition if cachectic) |
â–ª Vaccinations (pneumococcal vaccine, seasonal influenza, others as indicated) |