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Thus, in the primary health-care centre, the capacity of the rehabilitation programme slightly exceeded the number of eligible patients referred by the GPs in the municipality. A total of 75 patients (SHCC) and 48 patients (primary health-care centre) completed http://www.selleck.cn/products/CP-690550.html the 7-week rehabilitation programme. This corresponds to 84.2% and 81.3% of the patients starting the rehabilitation programme in the SHCC and primary health-care centre, respectively. The reasons for dropout was not recorded systematically. The difference in dropout between the centres was not statistically significant. At 3 months follow-up, a total of 64 and 39 patients completed the QoL questionnaires in the SHCC and primary health-care centre, respectively. COPD exacerbation and development of other diseases were the two main reasons for discontinuation of the rehabilitation programme. A small, but statistically significant difference in lung function between the patients attending the programme at the SHCC and primary health-care centre was seen (Table?1). Thus, http://www.selleckchem.com/products/abt-199.html patients in the SHCC had on average a lower lung function than the patients in the primary health-care centre. There were no statistically significant differences in the distribution of sex, age and smoking status. In both settings, there was a significant improvement (P? http://www.selleckchem.com/products/ABT-263.html be explained by differences between settings in the distribution of lung function, sex and age. However, the improvement in the ESWT was still significantly (P?=?0.032) different after adjustment for these variables (Table?3). Patients younger than 70 years had a greater improvement in ESWT than patients older than 70 years after adjusting for sex and lung function (Table?3). Only patients completing the QoL questionnaires at both time points evaluated were included in the analysis. Between T0 and T1 (from the start to the end of the 7-week rehabilitation programme), an improvement in SGRQ total score was seen in both centres, although this was only statistically significant in the primary health-care centre (Table?4). However, between T0 and T2 (from the start to 3 months after the rehabilitation programme), there was a statistically significant improvement in total SGRQ score in the SHCC.