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The INSPIRED Approaches to COPD: Improving Care and Creating Value Collaborative (INSPIRED) is a CFHI partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim Canada ltd. focused on educating patients and family members as part of a COPD action plan and self-management support program. As well, the collaboration provides reliable access to out-of-hospital (or post-discharge) clinical assessment and advice. The purpose of this analysis was to provide an independent evaluation of the potential net benefit and cost-effectiveness of CFHI’s pan-Canadian expansion of INSPIRED-Halifax. Over the next 30 years, the INSPIRED program could prevent 16-17% of COPD-related ER visits, hospitalizations, and bed-days. This represents a total of: <ul> <li>992,000 ER visits,</li> <li>639,000 hospitalizations, and</li> <li>5.8 million bed days.</li> </ul> This reduction in healthcare resource utilization could prevent a total of $15 billion in healthcare costs over the next 30 years. The INSPIRED program could have a total net benefit of $14.3 billion by 2046 (average annual benefit of $478 million). For each $1 invested in the INSPIRED program, $21 in healthcare costs can be prevented. The average annual net benefit for each eligible COPD participant enrolled is $34,000. <div class="elementor-element elementor-element-cf20230 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button" data-id="cf20230" data-element_type="widget" data-widget_type="button.default"> <div class="elementor-widget-container"> <div class="elementor-button-wrapper"><a class="elementor-button-link elementor-button elementor-size-sm" role="button" href="https://www.cancea.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Modeling-the-second-wave-of-novel-soH1N1-virus-in-Canada.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <span class="elementor-button-content-wrapper"><span class="elementor-button-text">Download the Report</span></span> </a></div> </div> </div>