An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society technical standard: field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease
Why is this work in the frame?
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame — the usual design — would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.
Abstract
Field walking tests are commonly employed to evaluate exercise capacity, assess prognosis and evaluate treatment response in chronic respiratory diseases. In recent years, there has been a wealth of new literature pertinent to the conduct of the 6-min walk test (6MWT), and a growing evidence base describing the incremental and endurance shuttle walk tests (ISWT and ESWT, respectively). The aim of this document is to describe the standard operating procedures for the 6MWT, ISWT and ESWT, which can be consistently employed by clinicians and researchers. The Technical Standard was developed by a multidisciplinary and international group of clinicians and researchers with expertise in the application of field walking tests. The procedures are underpinned by a concurrent systematic review of literature relevant to measurement properties and test conduct in adults with chronic respiratory disease. Current data confirm that the 6MWT, ISWT and ESWT are valid, reliable and responsive to change with some interventions. However, results are sensitive to small changes in methodology. It is important that two tests are conducted for the 6MWT and ISWT. This Technical Standard for field walking tests reflects current evidence regarding procedures that should be used to achieve robust results.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
The record
- Venue
- European Respiratory Journal
- Topic
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Field
- Medicine
- Canadian institutions
- —
- Funders
- Universiteit HasseltUniversidade Estadual de LondrinaUniversität ZürichConcordia UniversityLa Trobe UniversityUniversity Hospitals of Leicester NHS TrustEuropean Respiratory SocietyJohns Hopkins UniversityUniversity of PittsburghUniversity of WashingtonDrexel UniversityKU LeuvenNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchAmerican Thoracic Society
- Keywords
- MedicineMultidisciplinary approachTest (biology)Gold standard (test)Physical therapyPsychological interventionPhysical medicine and rehabilitationNursing
- Has abstract in OpenAlex
- yes