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"We are not worthy"--understanding why patients decline pulmonary rehabilitation following an acute exacerbation of COPD.

Samantha Louise Harrison, Noelle Robertson, Lindsay Apps, Michael C Steiner, Mike D L Morgan, Sally J Singh

PURPOSE: To explore how patients who refuse referral to pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) appraise acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in the context of having considered and declined PR. METHOD: Six participants recently hospitalized with an acute exacerbation COPD who refused a referral to PR subsequent to hospital discharge participated in in-depth interviews. Transcripts were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)...

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2015: Disability and Rehabilitation

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