Reproducibility and Sensitivity of the 6-Minute Stepper Test in Patients with COPD

COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 533-538

  Coquart, Jérémy B ^a   Lemaître, Frédéric ^a   Castres, Ingrid ^a,c   Saison, Sylvain ^b   Bart, Frédéric ^b   Grosbois, Jean Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROUEN   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier Germon et Gauthier   (France)

^c Formaction Santé ^*  (France)

Author keywords

exercise text; field test; functional capacity; pulmonary rehabilitation; reliability

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

6 MINUTE STEPPER TEST; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TEST; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; PULSE OXIMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARMING; COMPLICATION; EXERCISE; KINESIOTHERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICAL BIAS; TIME FACTOR; VITAL CAPACITY;

AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXERTION; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 84944157288     PISSN: 15412555     EISSN: 15412563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15412555.2014.974733     Document Type: Article

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