The impact of the meta-analysis of pulmonary rehabilitation by Lacasse and colleagues: transforming pulmonary rehabilitation from "art to science".

Sarah GephineCarla SimonelliGuido Vagheggini Rachael Andrea Evans Thomas J C Ward

Published in: Breathe (Sheffield, England) (2022)

#Pulmonaryrehab was transformed in the 1990s into the standard of care for COPD: this article focuses on the impact of the 1996 meta-analysis by Lacasse and colleagues which provided the evidence to silence the sceptics https://bit.ly/3MIntBC.

Keyphrases

systematic review
meta analyses
pulmonary hypertension
healthcare
palliative care
public health
case control
quality improvement
randomized controlled trial
antiretroviral therapy