Clinically useful outcome measures for physiotherapy airway clearance techniques: a review

Physical Therapy Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-307

  Marques, Alda ^a,b   Bruton, Anne ^a   Barney, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

LUNG SOUNDS; OUTCOME MEASURES; PHYSIOTHERAPY

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650560509     PISSN: 10833196     EISSN: 1743288X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/108331906X163441     Document Type: Review

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