Program
Assessment measures
- Incremental Shuttle Walk Test (ISWT) recording sheet [Pulmonary Rehab Toolkit]
- Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT) recording sheet [Pulmonary Rehab Toolkit]
- Modified Incremental Step Test (MIST) written instructions
- Modified Incremental Step Test (MIST) video demonstration and audio files
- COPD Assessment Test (CAT)
- St George’s Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ)
- Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnoea Scale (mMRC)
- Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 (DASS 21)
- Patient satisfaction form
Useful links
Telerehabilitation Impact Case Study
Rehabilitation Delivery
- HomeBase Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- Home and remote exercise testing
- Virtual PR – ACI New South Wales
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Toolkit (Lung Foundation Australia)
- Bronchiectasis toolbox
- C.O.P.E. COPD Online Patient Education (Lung Foundation Australia)
- Better Living with COPD (Lung Foundation Australia)
- Better Living with Exercise (Lung Foundation Australia)
- RACGP Smoking Cessation Guidelines
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation fact sheet (Lung Foundation Australia)
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation patient education information series (ATS)
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation patient education information series (ATS)[Spanish]
- What is pulmonary rehabilitation? Video (ATS)
- LIVE BETTER with Pulmonary Rehab (US)
Clinical Guidelines
- American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline: Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Adults with Chronic Respiratory Disease
- Australian and New Zealand Pulmonary Rehabilitation Clinical Practice Guidelines
- British Thoracic Society Guideline on Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Adults
- Global Initiative for Chronic Lung Disease (GOLD)
- COPD-X Guidelines
General
International
- Lung Foundation New Zealand
- American Thoracic Society
- American Thoracic Society Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assembly
- COPD Foundation
- American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
- European Lung Foundation
- COPD SOS
- Lung Care Foundation
- British Lung Foundation/Asthma + Lung UK
- British Thoracic Society
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