Survival after inpatient or outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease : a multicentre retrospective cohort study

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BACKGROUND: The impact of pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) on survival in patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD) is unknown. Given the challenges conducting a large randomised controlled trial, we aimed to determine whether improvement in 6-minute walk distance (6MWD) was associated with better survival.

METHODS: This retrospective, international cohort study included patients with fibrotic ILD participating in either inpatient or outpatient PR at 12 sites in 5 countries. Multivariable models were used to estimate the association between change in 6MWD and time to death or lung transplantation accounting for clustering by centre and other confounders.

RESULTS: 701 participants (445 men and 256 women) with fibrotic ILD were included. The mean±SD ages of the 196 inpatients and 505 outpatients were 70±11 and 69±12 years, respectively. Baseline/changes in 6MWD were 262±128/55±83 m for inpatients and 358±125/34±65 m for outpatients. Improvement in 6MWD during PR was associated with lower hazard rates for death or lung transplant on adjusted analysis for both inpatient (HR per 10 m 0.94, 95% CI 0.91 to 0.97, p<0.001) and outpatient PR (HR 0.97, 95% CI 0.95 to 1.00, p=0.042). Participation in ≥80% of planned outpatient PR sessions was associated with a 33% lower risk of death (95% CI 0.49% to 0.92%).

CONCLUSIONS: Patients with fibrotic ILD who improved physical performance during PR had better survival compared with those who did not improve performance. Confirmation of these hypothesis-generating findings in a randomised controlled trial would be required to definitely change clinical practice, and would further support efforts to improve availability of PR for patients with fibrotic ILD.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:77

Enthalten in:

Thorax - 77(2022), 6 vom: 14. Juni, Seite 589-595

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Guler, Sabina Anna [VerfasserIn]
Hur, Seo Am [VerfasserIn]
Stickland, Michael K [VerfasserIn]
Brun, Patrick [VerfasserIn]
Bovet, Luc [VerfasserIn]
Holland, Anne E [VerfasserIn]
Bondarenko, Janet [VerfasserIn]
Hambly, Nathan [VerfasserIn]
Wald, Joshua [VerfasserIn]
Makhdami, Nima [VerfasserIn]
Kreuter, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Gloeckl, Rainer [VerfasserIn]
Jarosch, Inga [VerfasserIn]
Tan, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Johannson, Kerri A [VerfasserIn]
McBride, S Ainslie [VerfasserIn]
De Boer, Kaissa [VerfasserIn]
Sandoz, Jacqueline S [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Kelly [VerfasserIn]
Assayag, Deborah [VerfasserIn]
Bhatt, Surya P [VerfasserIn]
Morisset, Julie [VerfasserIn]
Ferraro, Vincent [VerfasserIn]
Garvey, Chris [VerfasserIn]
Camp, Pat G [VerfasserIn]
Ryerson, Christopher J [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Exercise
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Interstitial fibrosis
Journal Article
Multicenter Study
Pulmonary rehabilitation
Randomized Controlled Trial

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Date Completed 19.05.2022

Date Revised 07.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1136/thoraxjnl-2021-217361

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330051059