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Table 1 Key participant features to be represented in patient participant interviews

From: Implementation of offering choice of pulmonary rehabilitation location to people with COPD: a protocol for the process evaluation of a cluster randomised controlled trial

 

Feature

Trial factors

• State

• Hospital outpatient PR program

• Community-based PR program

Patient factors

• Chose home-based PR

• Chose centre-based PR

• Sex

• Age (< 75 years versus ≥ 75 years)

• Oxygen user

• Previously undertaken PR

• Lives alone

• Currently working

• Completed high school education

Disease factors

• FEV1 (< 50%predicted versus ≥ 50% predicted)

• ≥ 1 hospital admission for COPD in last 12 months

• Exercise capacity (baseline 6MWD < 357 m)

  1. PR Pulmonary rehabilitation, FEV1 Forced expiratory volume in 1 s, COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 6MWD 6-Minute walk distance; m, metres