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Pulmonary Rehabilitation in a Post-COVID-19 World: Telerehabilitation as a New Standard in Patients with COPD

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Tsutsui, Mai, Gerayeli, Firoozeh, Sin, Don D·2021·International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is effective in reducing symptoms and improving health status, and exercise tolerance of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic has greatly impacted PR programs and their delivery to patients. Owing to fears of viral transmission and resultant outbreaks of COVID-19, institution-based PR programs have been forced to significantly reduce enrolment or in some cases completely shut down during the pandemic. As a majority of COPD patients are elderly and have multiple co-morbidities including cardiovascular disease and diabetes, they are notably susceptible to severe complications of COVID-19. As such, patients have been advised to stay at home and avoid social contact to the maximum extent possible. This has increased patients' vulnerability to physical deconditioning, depression, and social isolation. To address this major gap in care, some traditional hospital or clinic-centered PR programs have converted some or all of their learning contents to home-based telerehabilitation during the pandemic. There are, however, some significant barriers to this approach that have impeded its implementation in the community. These include variable access and use of technology (by patients), a lack of standardization of methods and tools for evaluation of the program, and inadequate training and resources for health professionals in optimally delivering telerehabilitation to patients. There is a pressing need for high-quality studies on these modalities of PR to enable the successful implementation of PR at home and via teleconferencing technologies. Here, we highlight the importance of telerehabilitation of patients with COPD in the post-COVID world and discuss various strategies for clinical implementation.

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Authors
Tsutsui, M., Gerayeli, F., & Sin, D. D.
Affiliations
University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
Sin, Don D
Venue
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published
2021-02
Volume
Volume 16
Pages
379-391
ISSN
  • 1176-9106 (ISSN-L)
  • 1178-2005
OpenAlex
W3129910941
Cited by
147
References
90
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 36 · 2021: 13
FWCI
5.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • International Journal of COPD (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • cIRcle (University of British Columbia) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Open Collections
Funders
  • St. Paul's Foundation
  • Mitacs
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Neurology › Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
Keywords
pulmonary rehabilitation, telerehabilitation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COVID-19 pandemic, home-based rehabilitation, telemedicine, deconditioning, social isolation, implementation barriers, health professions education, exercise tolerance
MeSH terms
Telerehabilitation, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Communicable Disease Control, Humans, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive, Quality Improvement

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