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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published on: August 24, 2019
Use of pedometer and Internet-mediated walking program in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Marilyn L Moy1, Adrienne W Janney, Huong Q Nguyen
1Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), Washington, DC, USA. marilyn.moy@va.gov
Abstract:
We evaluated an Internet-mediated, pedometer-based program to promote walking in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). First, we assessed the accuracy of the Omron HJ-720ITC pedometer (OMRON Healthcare, Inc; Bannockburn, Illinois) in 51 persons with COPD. The Bland-Altman plot showed a median difference of 3 steps (5th and 95th quintiles, -8.0 and 145.0, respectively). We calculated percent difference = ([manual - Omron step counts]/manual step counts) x 100. Variability in percent difference occurred at the lowest usual walking speeds. At speeds
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