BODE index and pulmonary rehabilitation in chronic respiratory failure. Society for Clinical Respiratory Physiology

摘要

In an observational study, Cote and Celli showed that the response to outpatient PR can be objectively measured using the BI, whose change provides information regarding ultimate survival, and that participation in a PR is associated with a decrease in the number of hospitalisations. This multidimensional 10-point scale has been previously shown to predict the death risk in COPD patients .We do accept with great enthusiasm the idea that there is now a flexible and pragmatic tool for a multidimensional staging system in COPD. This disease has complex effects on other aspects of respiratory function and, in most patients, is associated with important systemic changes .