In primary care, formal functional capacity testing is not always feasible. Guidelines for family practitioners suggest the use of dyspnoea scales to assess exercise tolerance in patients with chronic ...

questionnaire In patients with schizophrenia researchers found that the Beijing Performance-based Functional Ecological Test is valid in assessment of functional capacity. Researchers have developed a ...

Against this background, we conducted a pilot study to evaluate the feasibility and safety of symptom-limited CPET and 6MWT in patients with high-risk or relapsed hematologic malignancies, after ...

The 6-minute walking test (6MWT) assesses functional capacity by measuring the distance walked in six minutes. It provides ...

A newly hired driver arrives for orientation. He has passed the standard medical exam and seems fit enough. But within a couple of months, he has strained his back and now is on workers’ compensation.