ArticleScientific reports2025
Telehealth pulmonary rehabilitation enhances functional capacity and quality of life in veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a 12-week single-arm intervention study.
Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Digital Health Approaches to Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Narrative Paper.Annals of rehabilitation medicine · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Traditional in-person pulmonary rehabilitation protocols enhance respiratory health and functional capacity in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patients but face scalability issues due to high dropout rates and poor acceptability. Telerehabilitation offers a promising alternative. This 12-week single-arm intervention study evaluated the acceptability, feasibility, and effectiveness of a telehealth pulmonary rehabilitation (TPR) program for improving functional capacity in Veterans with COPD. Of the 51 participants, 44 (86% retention) completed the TPR program via the secure online VA Video Connect platform, which included weekly 120-min sessions. At the 12-week mark, compared to baseline, significant improvements were observed in functional capacity (41.3 m = 15.7% increase in the 6-min walk distance), functional mobility (1.2 s = 9.94% faster in Timed Up and Go), lower-body strength (1.2 s = 8.98% quicker in 5-Times Sit to Stand), and COPD-affected quality of life (27.9% improvement in St. George's Respiratory Questionnaire and 42.7% in COPD Assessment Test). The TPR intervention, with its low dropout rate, proves to be an accessible and effective method for enhancing functional capacity and mobility among Veterans with COPD, potentially benefiting veterans and others with chronic respiratory conditions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.