A randomised 2x2 trial of community versus hospital pulmonary rehabilitation, followed by telephone or conventional follow-up
Waterhouse JC, Walters SJ, Oluboyede Y, Lawson RA
Record ID 32003000268
English
Authors' recommendations:
Study found that pulmonary rehabilitation delivered in a community setting has similar efficacy to that offered in a more traditional hospital-based setting, and that the choice of model depends on local factors of convenience, existing availability of resources and incremental costs
Details
Project Status:
Completed
URL for project:
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1316
Year Published:
2010
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
- Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic
- Community Health Services
- Exercise Tolerance
- Follow-Up Studies
- Health Resources
- Length of Stay
- Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive
- Quality of Life
- Treatment Outcome
Contact
Organisation Name:
NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme
Contact Address:
NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email:
journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Copyright:
2010 Queen's Printer and Controller of HMSO
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