Lung function testing: The dilemma of predicted values in relation to the individual variability

Respiration

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 123-130

  Baur, X ^a   Degens, P ^a   Heitmann, R ^b   Hillenbach, C ^a   Marek, W ^a   Rausch, V ^c   Ulmer, W T ^d  

^a INSTITUT DER RUHR UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM IPA   (Germany)

^b Pneumologische Klinik   (Germany)

^c Evangelische und Johanniter Krankenanstalten Duisburg Nord Oberhausen   (Germany)

^d Institut fur Lungenfunktionsforschung Bochum   (Germany)

Author keywords

Individual variability; Intraindividual; Lung function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BODY PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SPIROMETRY; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 0029878609     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000196531     Document Type: Article

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