An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society technical standard: field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease

AE Holland, MA Spruit, T Troosters… - European …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Field walking tests are commonly employed to evaluate exercise capacity, assess prognosis
and evaluate treatment response in chronic respiratory diseases. In recent years, there has …

An official systematic review of the European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society: measurement properties of field walking tests in chronic respiratory …

SJ Singh, MA Puhan, V Andrianopoulos… - European …, 2014 - Eur Respiratory Soc
This systematic review examined the measurement properties of the 6-min walk test
(6MWT), incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) and endurance shuttle walk test (ESWT) in …

Measurement properties of the incremental shuttle walk test: a systematic review

VF Parreira, T Janaudis-Ferreira, RA Evans, S Mathur… - Chest, 2014 - Elsevier
Background The incremental shuttle walk test (ISWT) was developed> 20 years ago and has
been used to assess peak exercise capacity in a variety of chronic diseases. The aim of this …

The endurance shuttle walking test: a responsive measure in pulmonary rehabilitation for COPD patients

T Eaton, P Young, K Nicol… - Chronic Respiratory …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The endurance shuttle walk test (ESWT) is a standardized externally controlled
constant paced field test for the assessment of endurance capacity in chronic lung disease …

A qualitative systematic overview of the measurement properties of functional walk tests used in the cardiorespiratory domain

S Solway, D Brooks, Y Lacasse, S Thomas - Chest, 2001 - Elsevier
Objective: To perform a qualitative systematic overviewof the measurement properties of the
most commonly utilized walk testsin the cardiorespiratory domain: the 2-min walk test …

Six‐minute walk test: observed adverse events and oxygen desaturation in a large cohort of patients with chronic lung disease

S Jenkins, N Čečins - Internal medicine journal, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background: The 6‐min walk test (6MWT) is widely used to assess patients with chronic lung
disease (CLD). Anecdotal reports and studies in small numbers of patients with CLD …

Minimum clinically important improvement for the incremental shuttle walking test

SJ Singh, PW Jones, R Evans, MDL Morgan - Thorax, 2008 - thorax.bmj.com
Background: The incremental shuttle walking test (ISWT) is used to assess exercise capacity
in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and is employed as an …

Minimal clinically important differences in the six-minute walk test and the incremental shuttle walking test

RA Wise, CD Brown - COPD: Journal of Chronic Obstructive …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Simple walking tests are widely used for the assessment of functional status in patients with
cardiorespiratory disorders. These tests require far less instrumentation than formal …

Six-minute walk test: clinical role, technique, coding, and reimbursement

P Agarwala, SH Salzman - Chest, 2020 - Elsevier
The 6-min walk test (6MWT) is a commonly used test for the objective assessment of
functional exercise capacity for the management of patients with moderate-to-severe …

Significance of changes in endurance shuttle walking performance

V Pepin, L Laviolette, C Brouillard, L Sewell, SJ Singh… - Thorax, 2011 - thorax.bmj.com
Background The endurance shuttle walking test (ESWT) has shown good responsiveness to
interventions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). However, the …