Open AccessPhysical Frailty in COPD Patients with Chronic Respiratory Failure
Author(s) -
Sarah Géphine,
Patrick Mucci,
Jean-Marie Grosbois,
François Maltais,
Didier Saey
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s295885
Subject(s) - medicine , copd , physical therapy , depression (economics) , anxiety , pulmonary rehabilitation , quality of life (healthcare) , rehabilitation , gait , physical medicine and rehabilitation , psychiatry , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
The prevalence of physical frailty and its clinical characteristics in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unknown, as well as the usefulness of functional capacity tests to screen for physical frailty. The aim of the study was to evaluate the proportion and clinical portrait of COPD patients with chronic respiratory failure exhibiting physical frailty at the time of referral to home-based pulmonary rehabilitation. We also evaluate the usefulness of the short physical performance battery (SPPB) and timed-up and go (TUG) as potential screening tools for physical frailty. Finally, we evaluated the specific contribution of gait speed to the frailty Fried total score.