Article
Current best practice in pulmonary rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Therapeutic advances in respiratory disease - 1 Aug 2012
de Blasio Francesco, Polverino Mario
Abstract excerpt
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic condition that negatively affects several patient-centered outcomes. Among these, exercise capacity, dyspnea, and quality of life are the most relevant. In this article, factors contributing to exercise limitation, increase in exercise-induced dyspnea, quality of life deterioration, and other pathophysiological aspects in patients with COPD are analyzed in...
Topics
- Benchmarking
- Combined Modality Therapy
- Comorbidity
- Dyspnea
- Evidence-Based Medicine
- Exercise Tolerance
- Humans
- Lung
- Patient Care Team
- Phenotype
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
