… Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a “comprehensive intervention based on a thorough patient
… Statement on PR (1). This new Policy Statement has a different focus: it provides policy …

… In December 2015, the Official American Thoracic Society (ATS)/European Respiratory
Society (ERS) Policy Statement on Enhancing Implementation, Use and Delivery of …

… expertise in pulmonary rehabilitation worked to produce this document. Like pulmonary
rehabili… , the annual meeting, and policy and reimbursement information regarding cardiac and …

… to increase public awareness of pulmonary rehabilitation developed by the American …
employed by CIRO, a specialized pulmonary rehabilitation center in Horn, The Netherlands; …

… policy for PR reimbursement has led to differences in compensation among insurance
providers, based on differences in the Local Medical Review Policies … Medical Review Policies. …

… policy statement calls for “novel pulmonary rehabilitation program models that will make
evidence-based pulmonary rehabilitation … by the pulmonary rehabilitation research community. …

… The call to researchers and health policy makers internationally is to develop a more
sophisticated understanding of the patient and health-care factors that determine access to …

… this ATS/ERS Statement on Pulmonary Rehabilitation is to present … By necessity, this Statement
focuses primarily on COPD, … Local infection control policies may preclude participation of …

… The timing of pulmonary rehabilitation depends on the clinical status of … of pulmonary
rehabilitation, the ATS and the ERS have adopted the following definition: “Pulmonary rehabilitation …

… Recommendations to enhance implementation, use, and delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation
were articulated in the 2015 ATS/ERS Joint Policy Statement. Some inroads have been …