Nominal Group Technique consultation of a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of the study was to determine what patients, professionals and significant others regarded as the most important positive- and challenging aspects of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programmes for patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and to gain insight into how such programmes could be developed and improved.

Method

A modified Nominal Group Technique method was used in three consultation workshops (one with COPD patients who had recently undertaken a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme; one with 'significant others' of the same patients; one with secondary care professionals who deliver the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme).

Results

Each of three workshops resulted in the production of approximately ten positive- and ten challeng

SUBMITTER: Hutchings HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4103494 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature