Increasing implementation and delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation: key messages from the new ATS/ERS policy statement.

Affiliations: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physical Education and Sports Science; 1st Department of Respiratory Medicine, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit; 1st Department of Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Centre, Athens, Greece. Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, CT, USA. Dept of Research and Education, CIRO+, Center of Expertise for Chronic Organ Failure, Horn, The Netherlands. REVAL – Rehabilitation Research Center, BIOMED –Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. Dept. of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy. A full list of members of the ATS/ERS Task Force on Policy in Pulmonary Rehabilitation can be found in the Acknowledgements section.