The impact of the meta-analysis of pulmonary rehabilitation by Lacasse and colleagues: transforming pulmonary rehabilitation from "art to science"

Sarah Gephine; Carla Simonelli; Guido Vagheggini; Rachael Evans; Thomas J C Ward

doi:10.1183/20734735.0021-2022

The impact of the meta-analysis of pulmonary rehabilitation by Lacasse and colleagues: transforming pulmonary rehabilitation from "art to science"

Breathe (Sheff). 2022 Jun;18(2):220021. doi: 10.1183/20734735.0021-2022. Epub 2022 Jun 7.

Authors

Sarah Gephine^{1

2}, Carla Simonelli^{3

2}, Guido Vagheggini^{4

5}, Rachael Evans⁶, Thomas J C Ward⁶

Affiliations

¹ Univ. Lille, Univ. Artois, Univ. Littoral Côte D'opale, ULR 7369-Urepsss, Lille, France.
² These authors contributed equally and share first authorship.
³ Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Respiratory Rehabilitation Division of the Institute of Lumezzane, Lumezzane, Italy.
⁴ Azienda USL Toscana Nordovest, Dept of Medical Specialties, Chronic Respiratory Failure Care Pathway, Pisa, Italy.
⁵ Fondazione Volterra Ricerche ONLUS, Volterra, Italy.
⁶ Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Abstract

#Pulmonaryrehab was transformed in the 1990s into the standard of care for COPD: this article focuses on the impact of the 1996 meta-analysis by Lacasse and colleagues which provided the evidence to silence the sceptics https://bit.ly/3MIntBC.