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Home-Based Prescribed Pulmonary Exercise in Patients with Stable Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Published on: August 24, 2019
[Patient-reported parameters in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease]
Virginia Moya1, David Nieto, José María Marín
1Servicio de Neumología, Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud, Zaragoza, Spain.
Abstract:
Patients' and specialist physicians' perspectives of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) do not always coincide. Specialists are mainly interested in evaluating and monitoring pulmonary function deterioration, since this feature is the hallmark of the disease and indicates its severity. However, patients worry more about their symptoms (especially breathlessness), limitations for activities of daily living and progressive impairment of quality of life. These elements have been called "patient-reported parameters" (PRP). These parameters are of interest to physicians in daily clinical practice but clinical trials of new drugs or therapies for the treatment of COPD rarely include PRP determination in their design as measures of efficacy, although a change can be discerned in the latest trials.
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