Use of automatic 6-minute walking test recording system in patients with chronic respiratory diseases

R Torres-Castro1, H Pascual2, A Alonso3

  • 1Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Hospital Clínic, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona-Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain; Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Pulmonology
|October 2, 2023
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