Key result
Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation is a clinically effective alternative for people with chronic lung disease who cannot attend centre-based programmes.
Why the study?
Most pulmonary rehabilitation programmes are centre-based, requiring attendance at an outpatient centre, creating a need for clinically effective home-based alternatives for patients unable to attend.
May offer viable alternative for patients unable to attend centre-based PR; leaves open questions on scalability and long-term outcomes.
Pulmonary rehabilitation is an effective intervention for people with chronic lung disease, with evidence for improvements in exercise capacity, breathlessness and health-related quality of life [1]. It is strongly recommended in clinical guidelines for the management of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [2] and there is growing evidence for its effectiveness in other respiratory conditions [3–5]. The majority of pulmonary rehabilitation programmes are centre based, requiring participants to attend an outpatient centre for every session of supervised exercise and education related to self-management [6]. Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation is a clinically effective alternative for people who cannot attend centre-based programmes <https://bit.ly/33qPx7A> The authors wish to thank all the staff involved in delivering the intervention and assisting with data collection.
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Bondarenko et al. (2020) studied chronic lung disease. Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation vs. centre-based programmes was evaluated. Home-based pulmonary rehabilitation is a clinically effective alternative for people with chronic lung disease who cannot attend centre-based programmes.
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