Should we use criteria or eyeballing to reject post-interruption tracings?

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 937-946

  Veugelers, Rebekka ^a,e   Penning, Corine ^a,e   Grootscholten, Stefan P J ^a   Merkus, Peter J F M ^a   Arets, Hubertus G M ^b   Rieken, Rob ^a,e   Brussee, Jessica E ^c   Jilderda Janssen, Mayke ^d   Tibboel, Dick ^e   Evenhuis, Heleen M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Eyeballing; Inter observer variability; Interruption technique; Pressure curve; Rejection criteria; Respiratory resistance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREATHING; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPIRED AIR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG FLOW VOLUME CURVE; LUNG RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRESSURE TIME CURVE; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TIDAL VOLUME;

AIRWAY RESISTANCE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW RATES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 33749560640     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20471     Document Type: Article

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