Stitching and switching: The impact of discontinuous lung function reference equations

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1256-1257

  Kirkby, Jane ^a   Aurora, Paul ^a,b   Spencer, Helen ^b   Rees, Stephanie ^b   Sonnappa, Samantha ^a,b   Stocks, Janet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REFERENCE EQUATION; REFERENCE VALUE; SPIROMETRY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS;

ADULT; CHILD; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 84860442370     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00173011     Document Type: Letter

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