Short-term inpatient-based high-intensive pulmonary rehabilitation for lung cancer patients: is it feasible and effective?
Author(s) -
Kun Zhou,
Jianhua Su,
Yutian Lai,
Pengfei Li,
Shuangjiang Li,
Guowei Che
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of thoracic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.682
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 2077-6624
pISSN - 2072-1439
DOI - 10.21037/jtd.2017.10.105
Subject(s) - medicine , rehabilitation , lung cancer , pulmonary rehabilitation , term (time) , intensive care medicine , lung , physical therapy , oncology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , physics , quantum mechanics
This study was conducted to develop a preoperative in-hospital short-term rehabilitation program for surgical lung cancer patients, and investigate its feasibility, potential cost benefit and effectiveness on outcome measures including reduction of postoperative pulmonary complications (PPCs) and postoperative length of stay.
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