Quelle évaluation pour un projet de soins orienté vers une amélioration durable de la qualité de vie d'un patient porteur d'une BPCO ?

Dominique Delplanque
Kinésithér Scient 2013,0545:23-30 - 10/07/2013
In comparison with the general population, patients with COPD have a reduced quality of life. Muscle weakness plays an important role. Management of these patients is based on optimal medication as well as pulmonary rehabilitation. Pulmonary rehabilitation is considered to be effective and is recommended in management of stable COPD (grade A). Developing self-evaluation enables a patient to continue learning beyond the pulmonary rehabilitation program. For the health professional, it involves revisiting key concepts in order to better adapt to situations, to different contexts and to try to respond to the current problem which is maintaining what one has already acquired.