Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019-Related Infection Prevention and Control Measures on the Occurrence of COPD Exacerbations During Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

A significant reduction in hospitalizations for acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPDs) has been reported during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. It remains unclear whether this reduction is the result of health care avoidance by patients, or of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures.

Objectives

Our objective was to explore the impact of COVID-19-related IPC measures on the occurrence of AECOPD in a real-life inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) setting, thereby ruling out potential effects of health care avoidance.

Methods

Patients with COPD admitted for 8 weeks of inpatient PR at Ciro (Horn, the Netherlands) between October 2020 and March 2021, the first winter with full COVID-19-related IPC measures,were compared to patients adm

SUBMITTER: Waeijen-Smit K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10392876 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature