The effects of pulmonary rehabilitation on inflammatory biomarkers in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Anastasia N. L. Newman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: newmanan@mcmaster.ca

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Science, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0810-8131

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• Ana Oliveira ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Oliveira, Roger Goldstein, Christopher Farley, Parameswaran Nair, Dina Brooks

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Science, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, Lab 3R –Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation Laboratory, School of Health Sciences (ESSUA) and Institute of Biomedicine, Aveiro, Portugal

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• Roger Goldstein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Oliveira, Roger Goldstein, Christopher Farley, Parameswaran Nair, Dina Brooks

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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• Christopher Farley ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Oliveira, Roger Goldstein, Christopher Farley, Parameswaran Nair, Dina Brooks

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Science, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Parameswaran Nair ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Oliveira, Roger Goldstein, Christopher Farley, Parameswaran Nair, Dina Brooks

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

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• Dina Brooks

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ana Oliveira, Roger Goldstein, Christopher Farley, Parameswaran Nair, Dina Brooks

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Science, School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Respiratory Medicine, West Park Healthcare Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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