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

By S. Solway, D. Brooks, Y. Lacasse, Scott Thomas. Chest, 2001

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Subfields: Complementary and alternative medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Rehabilitation

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• Gait Speed and Survival in Older Adults (2011, neutral): “0 85 (82-88) 75 (69-79) 54 (43-64) 93 (91-95) 89 (86-91) 73 (59-83) 67 (62-71) 43 (36-50) 14 (7-25) 80 (75-83) 62 (56-68) 39 (22-56)”
• ATS statement: guidelines for the six-minute walk test. (2002, background): “A recent review of functional walking tests concluded that “the 6MWT is easy to administer, better tolerated, and more reflective of activities of daily living than the other walk tests” (9).”
• A Toolbox for Nonlinear Regression in R: The Package nlstools (2015, background): “It is well known that exercise capacity as assessed by 6MWT correlates with impairment of daily life activities and patients prognosis in several pulmonary conditions [Solway et al., 2001, Tueller et al., 2010].”