ILD Care Coordination and Navigation for Advanced Practice Providers
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Integrating Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) in ILD care coordination and navigation is vital to managing the progressive, complex, and often multisystem nature of interstitial lung disease (ILD). Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) serve as primary navigators across the continuum of care: diagnostic ambiguity, multispecialty involvement in surveillance, chronic disease management, pharmacotherapy, LTOT, rehabilitation referral, and transplant evaluations.
APPs enhance coordination and navigation by facilitating referrals, structuring disease monitoring, scheduling follow-up appointments, and improving interspecialty communication (pulmonary, rheumatology, radiology, transplant, primary care). APPs strengthen their role as leaders in integrated ILD care on the ILD Community Network by utilizing clinical experience, collaborative learning, and professional development.
Coordinating care with ILD and advanced practice providers is critical to ensuring Integrated and patient-focused ILD management. APPs facilitate care across multiple complex pathways ranging from multidisciplinary diagnostic assessments and collaboration to ongoing surveillance and coordination of referrals to lung transplant programs.
Advanced practice providers are equipped, through digital education, clinical updates, and professional networking via the ILD Community Network, to undertake the leadership of ILD care coordination and improve the quality of care for patients with interstitial lung disease.
