Pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with COPD during and after an exacerbation-related hospitalisation: back to the future?

Affiliations

• ¹ Dept of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA [email protected].
• ² University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, Chicago, IL, USA; co-chair, representing the American Thoracic Society.
• ³ 2nd Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Warsaw, Poland.
• ⁴ Dept of Thoracic Medicine and Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁵ Pneumology Dept, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, CIBER de Enferlmedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain.
• ⁶ UCL Respiratory, University College London, London, UK.
• ⁷ Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
• ⁸ Dept of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, CO, USA.
• ⁹ Iberoamerican Cochrane Center, Barcelona, Spain.
• ¹⁰ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ Division of Infection, Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK.
• ¹² Respiratory Medicine, Dept of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
• ¹³ Dept of Internal Medicine, Christian-Albrechts University, Kiel and LungenClinic Grosshansdorf, Airway Research Centre North, German Centre for Lung Research, Grosshansdorf, Germany.
• ¹⁴ University of Texas Health Science Center and South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, TX, USA.
• ¹⁵ Airways Disease Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK; co-chair, representing the European Respiratory Society.