Vol. 40 No. 5, Supplement 2 September/October 2003

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Cover JRRD 2003 About the Art

  1   Smoking cessation care received by veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Scott E. Sherman, MD, MPH; Andy B. Lanto, MA; Margaret Nield, RN, PhD; Elizabeth M. Yano, PhD

  13   Critical outcomes in pulmonary rehabilitation: Assessment and evaluation of dyspnea and fatigue
Paula M. Meek, PhD, RN; Suzanne C. Lareau, RN, MS

  25   Controlled breathing and dyspnea in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
Rik Gosselink, PT, PhD

  35   Effect of ventilation-feedback training on endurance and perceived breathlessness during constant work-rate leg-cycle exercise in patients with COPD
Eileen G. Collins, RN, PhD; Linda Fehr, MS; Christine Bammert, MS; Susan O'Connell, RN, MBA;
Franco Laghi, MD; Karla Hanson, MS; Eileen Hagarty, RN, MS; W. Edwin Langbein, PhD

  45   Bodies in motion: Monitoring daily activity and exercise with motion sensors in people with chronic pulmonary disease
Bonnie G. Steele, PhD, ARNP; Basia Belza, PhD, RN; Kevin Cain, PhD;
Catherine Warms, PhD, ARNP, CRRN; Jeff Coppersmith, MS, CSCS; JoEllen Howard, BS, GCS

  59   Exercise training in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Carolyn L. Rochester, MD

  81   Nonpharmacologic adjuncts to training during pulmonary rehabilitation: The role of supplemental oxygen and noninvasive ventilation
Guy W. Soo Hoo, MD, MPH

  99   Using an evidence-based protocol to guide rehabilitation and weaning of ventilator-dependent cervical spinal cord injury patients
Charles J. Gutierrez, MS, RRT; Jeffrey Harrow, MD, PhD; Fred Haines, RRT