Identification of Patients With COPD in a Cardiac Rehabilitation Setting: THE COnCuR STUDY.
CONCLUSIONS: Implementing the CLHT to patients referred to CR correctly identified COPD in <20% of cases. Using the CLHT to screen for COPD prior to starting CR may not be optimal, due to disparities between true- and false-positive rates.
PMID: 32947328 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Ozemek C, Arena R, Rouleau CR, Campbell TS, Hauer T, Wilton SB, Stone J, Laddu D, Williamson TM, Liu H, Austford LD, Roman MA, Aggarwal S Tags: J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev Source Type: research
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