From: The clinical and integrated management of COPD. An official document of AIMAR (Interdisciplinary Association for Research in Lung Disease), AIPO (Italian Association of Hospital Pulmonologists), SIMER (Italian Society of Respiratory Medicine), SIMG (Italian Society of General Medicine)
Absolute contraindications
Other contraindications
Unwillingness to participate in the program
Linguistic barriers
Poor adherence to the program
Cognitive impairment
Socio-economic barriers
Logistic barriers (e.g. distance from hospital)