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Organizational aspects of pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic respiratory diseases
Author(s) -
Spruit Martijn A.,
Wouters Emiel F.M.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
respirology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1440-1843
pISSN - 1323-7799
DOI - 10.1111/resp.13512
Subject(s) - pulmonary rehabilitation , medicine , rehabilitation , referral , pulmonary disease , physical therapy , intensive care medicine , copd , respiratory disease , family medicine , lung , psychiatry
Adult patients with chronic respiratory diseases may suffer from multiple physical (pulmonary and extra‐pulmonary), emotional and social features which necessitate a comprehensive, interdisciplinary rehabilitation programme. To date, pulmonary rehabilitation programmes show a lot of variation in setting, content, frequency and duration. Future projects should strive for a standard set of assessment measures to identify patients eligible for pulmonary rehabilitation, taking disease complexity into consideration, which should result in referral to an appropriate rehabilitation setting. Local circumstances may complicate this crucial endeavour.