Three to four days after starting the programme,
patients in both the groups were discharged from the
hospital. They continued with the usual care at home
for further three weeks. The intervention group patients
reported to the hospital every alternate day to perform
PR exercises to complete the prescribed period of three
weeks. The control group patients were not
administered PR exercises. They were simply given the
usual care and kept under observation on outpatient
basis. Patients were again assessed at three weeks as
at the baseline and underwent clinical evaluation,
spirometry, 6MWT, CPET, QoL and modified Borg
dyspnoea score