PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cotes, JE
TI  - Rating respiratory disability: a report on behalf of a working group of the European Society for Clinical Respiratory Physiology
AID  - 10.1183/09031936.93.03091074
DP  - 1990 Oct 01
TA  - European Respiratory Journal
PG  - 1074--1077
VI  - 3
IP  - 9
4099  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/3/9/1074.short
4100  - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/3/9/1074.full
SO  - Eur Respir J1990 Oct 01; 3
AB  - A rating procedure for respiratory disability has been developed; it entails measuring the symptom-limited maximal oxygen uptake or estimating the maximal uptake from the results of a submaximal exercise test and other relevant variables. The derivation assumes a linear scale of disability between the limits 0% and 100% which are defined. The percentage disability of 157 men with respiratory limitation of exercise has been used to delineate empirical grades of disability. These are of similar form to those used for grading respiratory impairment. More information is needed with a view to validation.