Participation in Pulmonary Rehabilitation by Veterans Health Administration and Medicare Beneficiaries After Hospitalization for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
CONCLUSION: Pulmonary rehabilitation is significantly underused in both the VHA and Medicare populations. Although comorbid pulmonary disease is associated with higher use, the proportion of eligible patients who participate remains extremely low.
PMID: 30252780 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Vercammen-Grandjean C, Schopfer DW, Zhang N, Whooley MA Tags: J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev Source Type: research
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