Quantifying the potential for independent living in COPD-patients.
In patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), daily physical functioning as quantified by energy expenditure, is limited by decreased ventilatory capacity and increased basal metabolic rate in relation to their physical capacity. Starting from the Dutch Health-Care situation, a measurement interpretation model is presented to quantify individual potential for independent living from energy expenditure, aerobic capacity and lung function. The interpretation model concerns only simple routine measurements. After further validation, this model will be used in predicting the clinical effects of environmental improvements.
Snijders
M C
MC
Centre for Biomedical and Health Care Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Bouten
C V
CV
van Putten
A F
AF
van Bronswijk
J E
JE
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D004779:Environment Design; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D015203:Reproducibility of Results