Concepedia

How should we measure function in patients with chronic heart and lung disease?

Gordon Guyatt, Penelope J. Thompson, Leslie B. Berman, Michael Sullivan, Marie Townsend, Norman L. Jones, Stewart Pugsley

Journal of Chronic Diseases · 1985 · 438 citations · 27 references

Concepts

MedicineCardiologyInternal MedicineFunctional AssessmentPulmonary Function TestingPulmonologyChronic DiseaseDyspnea AssessmentForced Vital CapacityFunctional Capacity AssessmentPulmonary AssessmentPulmonary Function AssessmentChronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease AssessmentLung Function DeclineLung Function TestingLung Function-related Functional CapacityPulmonary Function Screening

References

27

The Measurement of Dyspnea

Donald A. Mahler, David H. Weinberg, Carolyn K. Wells et al. · CHEST Journal · 1984 · 1.3K citations

Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Internal Medicine +10

Clinical exercise testing

Idelle M. Weisman, R. Jorge Zeballos · American Heart Journal · 1976 · 1.2K citations

Comparative reproducibility and validity of systems for assessing cardiovascular functional class: advantages of a new specific activity scale.

Lee Goldman, Beverly E. Hashimoto, E. Francis Cook et al. · Circulation · 1981 · 980 citations · Full text

Education, Cardiology, Clinical Cardiology +13

Lack of correlation between exercise capacity and indexes of resting left ventricular performance in heart failure

Joseph A. Franciosa, Mary Park, T. Barry Levine · The American Journal of Cardiology · 1981 · 882 citations

Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology +16

Effect of encouragement on walking test performance.

Gordon Guyatt, Stewart Pugsley, Michael Sullivan et al. · Thorax · 1984 · 817 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Physiology +15