Introduction:

Pulmonary Rehabilitation has been endorsed as a treatment tool in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Although there are several programs in our environment, there are few reports that evaluate their impact. The BODE Index is a multidimensional scale that reflects the impact of lung and extrapulmonary factors on prognosis and survival; Pulmonary rehabilitation improves some components of the BODE index. The objective was to describe changes in BODE index score in patients with COPD, before and after attending a PR program.

Materials and methods:

Descriptive, retrospective-longitudinal study. Records were selected in the years 2009-2010. We included 24 patients with COPD who attended for 8 weeks in a level III hospital in the city of Cali-Colombia. Descriptive analysis was performed, including frequencies, measures of central tendency and dispersion. The inferential analysis was based on the comparison of the initial and final evaluation of the study variables.

Results:

Total BODE score, effort tolerance, measured with walking test and dyspnea measured with the Modified Medical Research Council scale, had significant reductions (p> 0.05).

Conclusions:

It was observed that Pulmonary Rehabilitation reduces the score of the BODE index in patients with COPD.

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