SynthesisInternational journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease2017
Systematic review of the association between exercise tests and patient-reported outcomes in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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- Improvements in Patient-reported Functioning After Lung Transplant Is Associated With Improved Quality of Life and Survival.Transplantation direct · 2025Article
- Increasing Quality and Quantity of Life in Individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Narrative Review with an Emphasis on Pulmonary Rehabilitation.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Clinical importance of patient-reported outcome measures in severe asthma: results from U-BIOPRED.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2024Article
- The Effect of Chronic Altitude Exposure on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Outcomes in the SPIROMICS Cohort: An Observational Cohort Study.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2024Observational
- The modified Medical Research Council scale misclassifies exertional breathlessness among people referred for exercise testing.ERJ open research · 2023Article
- Systematic Review of the Use of the 6-Minute Walk Test in Measuring and Improving Prognosis in Patients With Ischemic Heart Disease.CJC open · 2023Review
- Apolipoprotein-A is a potential prognostic biomarker for severe aplastic anemia patients treated with ATG-based immunosuppressive therapy: a single-center retrospective study.Lipids in health and disease · 2022Article
- Physical Tests Are Poorly Related to Patient-Reported Outcome Measures during Severe Acute Exacerbations of COPD.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- European Respiratory Society International Congress, Madrid, 2019: nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease highlights.ERJ open research · 2020Review
- Association between patient-reported outcomes and exercise test outcomes in patients with COPD before and after pulmonary rehabilitation.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2020Article
- Review of Drug Development Guidance to Treat Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: US and EU Perspectives.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2019Review
- Assessing the Correlation Between Disease Severity Indices and Quality of Life Measurement Tools in Pemphigus.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Article
- Repetitive TLR3 activation in the lung induces skeletal muscle adaptations and cachexia.Experimental gerontology · 2018Article
- Poor Work Efficiency is Associated with Poor Exercise Capacity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseArticle
- Impact of Exercise Capacity Upon Respiratory Functions, Perception of Dyspnea, and Quality of Life in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseArticle
- Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and measurement properties of the Brazilian-Portuguese version of the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis-specific version of the Saint George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ-I) for patients with interstitial lung disease.Brazilian journal of physical therapyArticle
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Abstract
introductionChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an increasingly common cause of death worldwide. Its cardinal symptoms include breathlessness and severely reduced exercise capacity. Several patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are used to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL), functional performance, and breathlessness in patients with COPD. Exercise testing is employed to measure functional performance objectively, which is generally believed to impact on overall HRQoL. However, the extent to which commonly used laboratory- and field-based exercise test results correlate with PROs has not been systematically assessed. MATERIALS AND
methodsA search of Embase, MedLine, and the Cochrane Library identified primary publications in English that reported data on the correlations (Pearson's
resultsOf 3,205 articles screened, 28 were deemed eligible for inclusion. The most commonly reported HRQoL PRO measure was the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (13 studies), and the most commonly reported breathlessness PRO measure was the Baseline Dyspnea Index (six studies). The St George's Respiratory Questionnaire appears to correlate very weakly to moderately with the 6MWT, and breathlessness PROs appear to be moderately to strongly associated with 6MWT outcomes. Across all studies, the 6MWT was the most commonly reported exercise test. Very few publications reporting associations between other exercise tests and PRO measures were found.
conclusionThis review found evidence to support the association of 6MWT outcomes with HRQoL and breathlessness PROs. There were limited data showing correlations with the outcomes of other exercise tests. Further work is required to examine the associations between these PROs and exercise test outcomes.
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