COVID-19 Postacute Sequela Rehabilitation: A Look to the Future Through the Lens of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
Shweta Gore, Julie Keysor
PMID 35229076WHAT IT FOUND
The paper proposes training postacute teams in pulmonary rehabilitation for long-haul COVID, but reports no patients or outcomes.
It is a call to action, not evidence that the approach works.
What this paper is
This is a narrative commentary proposing how pulmonary rehabilitation might be integrated into postacute care for long-haul COVID, using COPD evidence as a lens. It reports no patients, no methods, and no outcomes, so there is nothing here to change your practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the COPD evidence cited here as proof that pulmonary rehabilitation improves long-haul COVID outcomes. The authors state the efficacy of hybrid models is unknown, and no trial data are presented.