Feasibility, effectiveness and safety of self-management in pulmonary rehabilitation: a study protocol using a hybrid type 1 effectiveness-implementation design.
Ellen Ricke, Arie Dijkstra, Eric W Bakker
PMID 37228588WHAT IT FOUND
No results are reported.
This is a study protocol for a planned Dutch COPD pulmonary rehabilitation self-management evaluation, so there is no finding to act on.
What this paper is
This is a study protocol for a planned Dutch COPD pulmonary rehabilitation self-management evaluation. It describes the intended design, measurements and analyses, but no actual participants have been followed and no results are available, so there is nothing here to change practice on.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that less supervised pulmonary rehabilitation is safe or effective. It is a protocol only; no patients were followed and no outcomes are reported.