Maintenance rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effectiveness of maintenance pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with COPD, including: the overall efficacy of maintenance pulmonary rehabilitation on healthcare utilisation, health‐related quality of life, exercise/functional capacity, self‐efficacy, psychological well‐being and objective measures of health outcome the comparative efficacy of different types of maintenance pulmonary rehabilitation (e.g. mode of delivery, content such as physical training alone or in combination with psychosocial and educational support, and length of intervention) whether the duration of benefit is related to the magnitude of the initial improvement during primary pulmonary rehabilitation the comparative efficacy of maintenance pulmonary rehabilitation in relation to COPD severity