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Pre-bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) has a positive impact on patients’ clinic.
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Adding IMT to standard PR can lead to a greater increase in improvement in exercise capacity and spirometric parameters.
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Evaluating the effects of post-PR gains on patient clinic is necessary to make a decision regarding the BLVR procedure.
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The Chinese PUMA questionnaire (C-PUMA) is linguistically and clinically validated.
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The best C-PUMA cutoff score is ≥6 (sensitivity/specificity/NNS=77%/64%/3).
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C-PUMA ≥5 is adequate to detect more COPD patients in high-incidence primary care.
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The PUMA-PEFR model is more accurate and cost-effective than the C-PUMA alone.
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The best PCOPD cutoff value is ≥0.39 (sensitivity/specificity/NNS=79%/88%/2).