Does home-based pulmonary rehabilitation improve functional capacity, peripheral muscle strength and quality of life in patients with bronchiectasis compared to standard care?
Anderson José, Anne E Holland, Cristiane S de Oliveira, Jessyca P R Selman, Rejane A S de Castro, Rodrigo A Athanazio, Samia Z Rached, Alberto Cukier, Rafael Stelmach, Simone Dal Corso
PMID 28869119WHAT IT FOUND
No results are reported.
This is a protocol for a planned trial of home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in stable bronchiectasis, not evidence that the program works.
What this paper is
This is a randomized controlled trial protocol for home-based pulmonary rehabilitation in adults with stable bronchiectasis. It sets out planned recruitment, randomization, a home exercise program compared with standard care, and outcome measures, but it reports no participants, results, or findings. There is nothing here yet to change practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the planned home program as proven effective. This protocol reports no results yet.