DOI: 10.36106/ijar/1601124 ISSN:

HOME-BASED PULMONARY REHABILITATION: A NARRATIVE REVIEW

Kishore Kumar, Jenny Jayapal, Manigandan Venkatesan, Meenakshi Narasimhan
  • General Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • General Engineering
  • General Medicine
  • General Chemistry
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
  • Applied Mathematics
  • General Mathematics
  • Microbiology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • History
  • Education
  • General Medicine
  • Immunology
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Pulmonary rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary, evidence based therapy wherein individually tailored therapies made to improve the physiological and psychological status of chronic respiratory disease patients. We searched 3 databases and term used “home-based pulmonary rehabilitation”. We identied 68 literatures and 8 of them met our inclusion criteria. Our review suggests that home-based pulmonary rehabilitation is effective in chronic respiratory disease patients, further research needed to standardise its quality and benets.

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