查看文章

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted dramatically on people’s lives and health care systems worldwide. Resources of the national health services have been focused on the monitoring and management of patients with COVID-19 and so chronic respiratory disease management, namely through pulmonary rehabilitation (PR), has become even more challenging than it used to be before COVID-19. Following national and international recommendations, PR programmes were advised to suspend their activities and to provide care remotely using telehealth solutions (eg, phone, video-calls, telerehabilitation). 1, 2 Major concerns already existed about the lack of access to PR programmes (either hospital-, primary care-or communitybased) worldwide. 3 In Portugal, the reported percentage of patients having access to PR programmes is between 0.5 and 2%. 4, 5 This situation has most certainly been aggravated by …