… For this study, 10 established pulmonary rehabilitation programs agreed to collect common
clinical health outcome data on consecutive patients over 2 years. The following three self-…

… of the cost-effectiveness of PR in the US health care system … supporting the cost-effectiveness
of PR within the US health care … The base case cost for a 2-hour pulmonary rehabilitation …

… by 2.4 in the year after pulmonary rehabilitation (P < .0001); most of … The estimated
costs/charges for the aspects of healthcare … pulmonary rehabilitation leads to a reduction in …

… Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has high morbidity and mortality rates. COPD
… Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has become an important nonpharmacological treatment for …

… The cost of and source of funding for PR varies across programs and health care systems.
In the US, public (eg, Medicare and Medicaid) and private insurances provide coverage for …

… pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) services are extremely limited. Imbalances in PR delivery
give rise to unnecessary health costs … using the key words “pulmonary rehabilitation” and “survey.…

… COPD treatments such as pulmonary rehabilitation, which delivers benefits that match or
exceed those of many bronchodilator therapies, with lower costs per quality-adjusted life-year. …

… into account overall health service costs. Our findings can therefore be used to compare
the cost effectiveness of investment in pulmonary rehabilitation with the cost effectiveness of …

… cost was based on unit costs as listed in the British National Formulary for September 2008.
Cost of provision of pulmonary rehabilitation … tariff based on reference costs from 2007/2008 …

With an aging population, the burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
continues to rise, impacting patients, their families, the health care system, and the society. The …