Does the use of per cent of predicted have any evidence base?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 322-323

  Miller, Martin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; ASTHMA; FEMALE; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

ASTHMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 84922156212     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00199414     Document Type: Editorial

References (12)

1. Guyatt G, Cairns J, Churchill D, et al. Evidence-based medicine. A new approach to teaching the practice of medicine. JAMA 1992;268:2420-2425.
2. Bates DV, Christie RV. Respiratory Function in Disease. An Introduction to the Integrated Study of the Lung. Philadelphia, WB Saunders, 1964.
3. Sobol BJ, Weinheimer B. Assessment of ventilatory abnormality in the asymptomatic subject: an exercise in futility. Thorax 1966;21:445-449.
4. Miller MR, Pincock AC. Predicted values: how should we use them? Thorax 1988;43:265-267.
5. Quanjer PH, Cooper B, Ruppel GL, et al. Defining airflow obstruction. Eur Respir J 2015;45:561-562.
6. Smith M, Li L, Augustyn M, et al. Prevalence and correlates of airflow obstruction in ∼317 000 never-smokers in China. Eur Respir J 2014;44:66-77.
7. Miller MR, Quanjer PH, Swanney MP, et al. Interpreting lung function data using 80% predicted and fixed thresholds misclassifies more than 20% of patients. Chest 2011;139:52-59.
8. Gan WQ, Man SF, Postma DS, et al. Female smokers beyond the perimenopausal period are at increased risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Respir Res 2006;7:52.
9. Jordan RE, Miller MR, Lam KB, et al. Sex, susceptibility to smoking and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the effect of different diagnostic criteria. Analysis of the Health Survey for England. Thorax 2012;67:600-605.
10. Eliasson O, Degraff AC. The use of criteria for reversibility and obstruction to define patient groups for bronchodilator trials. Influence of clinical diagnosis, spirometric, and anthropomorphic variables. Am Rev Respir Dis 1985;132:858-864.
11. Quanjer PH, Tammeling GJ, Cotes JE, et al. Lung volumes and forced ventilatory flows. Eur Respir J 1993;6:Suppl. 16, 5-40.
12. Pellegrino R, Viegi G, Brusasco V, et al. Interpretative strategies for lung function tests. Eur Respir J 2005;26:948-968.