Outcome measures in a combined exercise rehabilitation programme for COPD and chronic heart failure patients: a stakeholder consensus event
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Combined exercise rehabilitation for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic heart failure (CHF) is potentially attractive. Uncertainty remains as to the baseline profiling assessments and outcome measures that should be collected within a programme. Current evidence surrounding outcome measures in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation were presented by experts at a stakeholder consensus event and all stakeholders (n = 18) were asked to (1) rank in order of importance a list of categories, (2) prioritise outcome measures and (3) prioritise baseline patient evaluation measures that should be assessed in a combined COPD and CHF rehabilitation programme. The tasks were completed anonymously and related to clinical rehabilitation programmes and associated research. Health-related quality of life, exercise capacity and symptom evaluation were voted as the most important categories to assess for clinical purposes (median rank: 1, 2 and 3 accordingly) and research purposes (median rank; 1, 3 and 4.5 accordingly) within combined exercise rehabilitation. All stakeholders agreed that profiling symptoms at baseline were ‘moderately’, ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ important to assess for clinical and research purposes in combined rehabilitation. Profiling of frailty was ranked of the same importance for clinical purposes in combined rehabilitation. Stakeholders identified a suite of multidisciplinary measures that may be important to assess in a combined COPD and CHF exercise rehabilitation programme.
Date Issued
2019-09-16
Date Acceptance
2019-07-10
Citation
Chronic Respiratory Disease, 2019, 16
ISSN
1479-9723
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Journal / Book Title
Chronic Respiratory Disease
Volume
16
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2019. Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative CommonsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercialuse, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and OpenAccess pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage)
Subjects
Pulmonary rehabilitation
cardiac rehabilitation
chronic heart failure
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
outcome measures
1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology
1103 Clinical Sciences
Respiratory System
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2019-09-16