Background Pulmonary rehabilitation is a cornerstone of care for COPD but uptake of
traditional centre-based programmes is poor. We assessed whether home-based pulmonary
rehabilitation, delivered using minimal resources, had equivalent outcomes to centre-based
pulmonary rehabilitation. Methods A randomised controlled equivalence trial with 12 months
follow-up. Participants with stable COPD were randomly assigned to receive 8 weeks of
pulmonary rehabilitation by either the standard outpatient centre-based model, or a new …