How is the organisational settings, content and availability of comprehensive multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation for people with COPD in primary healthcare in Norway: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the organisational settings, content and availability of comprehensive multidisciplinary pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in primary healthcare in Norway.

Design

This was a cross-sectional survey study examining the content, organisational settings and availability of comprehensive multidisciplinary PR for people with COPD.

Setting and participants

When the survey was conducted, Norway had 436 municipalities/primary healthcare services who were invited to participate.

Outcome measures

The main outcome was the question related to accessibility to a PR programme in primary healthcare. We also examined in what degree the single interventions which are a part of a PR programme

SUBMITTER: Frisk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860025 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature