How long should Outpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation be? A randomised controlled trial of four-weeks versus seven-weeks. Louise Sewell (BSc (OT)) - Pulmonary Rehabilitation Specialist Sally J Singh (PhD) - Head of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
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How long should outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation be? A randomised controlled trial of 4 weeks versus 7 weeks.
BACKGROUND The evidence of benefit for pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes is established. However, the optimal duration of a PR programme is not known. A randomised controlled trial was undertaken in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to assess whether a 4 week PR programme was equivalent to our conventional 7 week PR programme at equivalent time points of 7 weeks ...
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