Effect of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Approaches on Dyspnea, Exercise Capacity, Fatigue, Lung Functions, and Quality of Life in Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To qualitatively synthesize and quantitatively evaluate the effect of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on dyspnea, lung functions, fatigue, exercise capacity, and quality of life (QoL) in patients with COVID-19.

Data sources

PubMed, Web of Science, and Cochrane databases were searched from January 2020 to April 2022.

Data selection

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing the effect of PR on dyspnea, lung functions, fatigue, exercise capacity, and QoL in patients with COVID-19.

Data extraction

The mean difference (MD) and a 95% CI were estimated for all the outcome measures using random effect models. The following data were extracted by 2 independent reviewers: (1) first author; (2) publication year; (3) nationality; (4) number of patients included

SUBMITTER: Ahmed I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9334878 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature