Does a 6-week programme of online-supported pulmonary rehabilitation improve 6MWT distance and symptom scores in patients with COPD with functional limitation compared to face-to-face sessions?
Online-supported pulmonary rehabilitation is a safe, well-tolerated, and non-inferior alternative to conventional face-to-face sessions for improving functional capacity and symptoms in COPD patients.
PR is an evidenced-based and guideline-mandated intervention for patients with COPD with functional limitation. A 6-week programme of online-supported PR was non-inferior to a conventional model delivered in face-to-face sessions in terms of effects on 6MWT distance, and symptom scores and was safe and well tolerated.
Bourne et al. (Sat,) studied this question.