Finding signals amidst the noise in pulmonary function testing

Chest

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 367-368

  MacIntyre, Neil ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDITORIAL; EQUIPMENT; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 34548021686     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.07-0937     Document Type: Editorial

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