Early experiences of rehabilitation for patients post-COVID to improve fatigue, breathlessness exercise capacity and cognition
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Abstract
Patients with lasting symptoms of COVID-19 should be offered a comprehensive recovery programme. Patients that completed a six week, twice supervised adapted pulmonary rehabilitation programme demonstrated statistically significant improvements in exercise capacity, respiratory symptoms, fatigue and cognition. Participants improved by 112m on the Incremental Shuttle Walking Test and 544 seconds on the Endurance Shuttle Walking Test. There were no serious adverse events recorded, and there were no dropouts related to symptom worsening. COVID-19 rehabilitation appears feasible and significantly improves clinical outcomes.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.25.21254293: (What is this?)
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Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This observational study was approved by the National Health Service Research Ethics Committee (reference 17/EM/0156) and registered through the ISRCTN (ISRCTN45695543). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study …SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.25.21254293: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Institutional Review Board Statement IRB: This observational study was approved by the National Health Service Research Ethics Committee (reference 17/EM/0156) and registered through the ISRCTN (ISRCTN45695543). Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Table 2: Resources
No key resources detected.
Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:
Identifier Status Title ISRCTN45695543 NA NA Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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- No protocol registration statement was detected.
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