| COPD | Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
| AECOPD | Acute Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
| EQ-5D-5L | EuroQol 5-Dimension 5-Level |
| EQ-VAS | EuroQol Visual Analogue Scale |
| SPPB | Short Physical Performance Battery |
| CAT | COPD Assessment Test |
| SGRQ | St. George’s Respiratory Questionnaire |
| HRQoL | Health-Related Quality of Life |
| PR | Pulmonary Rehabilitation |
| RCT | Randomised Controlled Trial |
| STROBE | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| FEV1 | Forced Expiratory Volume in one second |
| mMRC | Modified Medical Research Council Dyspnoea Scale |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| MICE | Multiple Imputation by Chained Equations |
| PMM | Predictive Mean Matching |