A Pulmonary Rehabilitation Decisional Score to Define Priority Access for COPD Patients

Figure 1

PRDS score, calculated on single report at the time of outpatients visit. Median value indicates the score to be given to the specialist’s prescription for low priority (LP, circles, ); high priority (HP, triangles, ); and very high priority (VHP, squares, ). Dotted lines at 11 and 18 delimit the arbitrary cut-offs of PR priority, that is, for LP (0–10), HP (11–17), and VHP (18–34). One-way ANOVA was performed to compare differences among settings and, where significant, Bonferroni’s multiple comparison was applied as post hoc test. A value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.