Home-based rehabilitation for COPD using minimal resources: a randomised, controlled equivalence trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary rehabilitation is a cornerstone of care for COPD but uptake of traditional centre-based programmes is poor. We assessed whether home-based pulmonary rehabilitation, delivered using minimal resources, had equivalent outcomes to centre-based pulmonary rehabilitation.

Methods

A randomised controlled equivalence trial with 12 months follow-up. Participants with stable COPD were randomly assigned to receive 8 weeks of pulmonary rehabilitation by either the standard outpatient centre-based model, or a new home-based model including one home visit and seven once-weekly telephone calls from a physiotherapist. The primary outcome was change in 6 min walk distance (6MWD).

Results

We enrolled 166 participants to receive centre-based rehabilitation (n=86) or

SUBMITTER: Holland AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5329049 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature