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Identifying Candidates for Pulmonary Rehabilitation

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Pulmonary rehabilitation is an evidence-based treatment option for patients with respiratory disorders. The numbers needed to treat in order to have one successful participant on a particular outcome are estimated to be around three. Such low numbers are surely speaking for themselves in terms of the overall effectiveness of rehabilitation, but still a number of patients do not benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation, never start the program, or drop out. In this chapter, we will summarize the current state of the art in terms of patient selection for rehabilitation.

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  1. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Respiratory Division and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Thierry Troosters P.T., Ph.D.

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  1. Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Modena Policlinico, Modena, Italy

    Enrico Clini

  2. Alfred Health and Institute for Breathing and Sleep, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Anne E. Holland

  3. State University of Londrina, Londrina, Paraná, Brazil

    Fabio Pitta

  4. Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, KU Leuven, Respiratory Division and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Thierry Troosters

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Troosters, T. (2018). Identifying Candidates for Pulmonary Rehabilitation. In: Clini, E., Holland, A., Pitta, F., Troosters, T. (eds) Textbook of Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65888-9_3

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