TY - JOUR T1 - Ambulatory oxygen in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: of what benefit? JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 269 LP - 270 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00007712 VL - 40 IS - 1 AU - Rebecca C. Frank AU - Sophie Hicks AU - Annette M. Duck AU - Lisa Spencer AU - Colm T. Leonard AU - Emma Barnett Y1 - 2012/07/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/1/269.abstract N2 - To the Editors:We read with interest the Letter by Visca et al. [1], recently published in the European Respiratory Journal, which described improvement in 6-min walk distance with ambulatory oxygen in patients with interstitial lung disease (ILD). We have looked specifically at the effects of ambulatory oxygen on walk distance in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and here describe a practical way of ensuring patients are prescribed an optimum flow rate of ambulatory oxygen.Between 2004 and 2007, we conducted a retrospective review of anonymised data, studying the effect of ambulatory oxygen on the distance walked in patients with IPF … ER -