Accelerometer-Based Quantification of 6-Minute Walk Test Performance in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure: Applicability in Telemedicine

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 334-340

  Jehn, Melissa ^a   Schmidt Trucksäess, Arno ^a   Schuster, Tibor ^a   Hanssen, Henner ^a   Weis, Michael ^b   Halle, Martin ^a   Koehler, Friedrich ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

6 minute walk test; Activity monitoring; RT3; step frequency

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PEDOMETER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; TELEMEDICINE; WALKING SPEED; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELEMEDICINE; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 65249133435     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.11.011     Document Type: Article

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