Sara C Buttery, Parris J Williams, Lisa J Brighton, Craig Batista, Amy Dewar, Lauren Hogg, Karen Ingram, Gemma Korff, Maria Koulopoulou, Helen Lammin, Matthew Maddocks, Lynn McDonnell, Bhavin Mehta, Victoria Meyrick, Lisa Pritchard, Oliver Smith, Puja Trivedi, Rod A Lawson, Nicholas S Hopkinson
BACKGROUND: Completion of pulmonary rehabilitation is recognised in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) guidelines as a key opportunity to consider systematically whether a respiratory review to assess potential suitability for a lung volume reduction (LVR) procedure might be appropriate. We describe the development of a simple decision-support tool (the LVR-PR tool) to aid clinicians working in pulmonary rehabilitation, to operationalise this process. METHODS: We took an iterative mixed methods approach, which was partnership-based and involved an initial consensus survey, focus groups and an observational study cohort at multiple pulmonary rehabilitation centres...
2023: Chronic Respiratory Disease