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The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream (2017)
Journal Article
Hakamy, A., McKeever, T. M., Steiner, M. C., Roberts, C. M., Singh, S. J., & Bolton, C. E. (in press). The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 12, https://doi.org/10.2147/COPD.S141620

Our aim was to evaluate the use and impact of the practice walk test on enrolment, completion, and clinical functional response to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) using the 2015 UK National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Pulmonary Rehabil... Read More about The use of the practice walk test in pulmonary rehabilitation program: National COPD Audit Pulmonary Rehabilitation Workstream.

Socioeconomic deprivation and the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation in England and Wales (2017)
Journal Article
Steiner, M. C., Lowe, D., Beckford, K., Blakey, J., Bolton, C. E., Elkin, S., Man, W. D. .-C., Roberts, C. M., Sewell, L., Walker, P., & Singh, S. J. (2017). Socioeconomic deprivation and the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation in England and Wales. Thorax, 72(6), 530-537. https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2016-209376

Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) improves exercise capacity and health status in patients with COPD, but many patients assessed for PR do not complete therapy. It is unknown whether socioeconomic deprivation associates with rates of completi... Read More about Socioeconomic deprivation and the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation in England and Wales.