Should we exclude elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from a long-term ambulatory pulmonary rehabilitation programme?

Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 466-472

  Corhay, Jean Louis ^a   Nguyen, Delphine ^a   Duysinx, Bernard ^a   Graas, Cédric ^a   Pirnay, Freddy ^a   Bury, Thierry ^a   Louis, Renaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Elderly; Pulmonary rehabilitation; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861041846     PISSN: 16501977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/16501977-0973     Document Type: Article

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