BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Inspired and expired lung volumes measured by spirometry
are useful for detecting, characterising and quantifying the severity of lung disease. …

BACKGROUND ⇓ In preparing the joint statements on lung function testing for the American
Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), it was agreed by the …

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 …

BACKGROUND This section is written to provide guidance in interpreting pulmonary function
tests (PFTs) to medical directors of hospital-based laboratories that perform PFTs, and …

… MR Miller: University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK; J. Hankinson:
Hankinson Consulting, Inc., Valdosta, GA, USA; V. Brusasco: Università degli Studi di …

BACKGROUND This joint statement is based on the previous statements from the American
Thoracic Society (ATS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS), and much of the …

… Casaburi, AL Coates, PL Enright, JL Hankinson, CG Irvin, NR MacIntyre, RT McKay, JS
Wanger, SD Anderson, DW Cockcroft, JE Fish, PJ Sterk …

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 adults with …

Background: The American Thoracic Society committee on Proficiency Standards for Pulmonary
Function Laboratories has recognized the need for a standardized reporting format for …

This document provides an update to the European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American
Thoracic Society (ATS) technical standards for single-breath carbon monoxide uptake in the …