Measurement properties of the sit-to-stand test in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis using the COSMIN guidelines

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 19; no. 12; p. e0316451
• Main Authors: Farley, Christopher, Phillips, Stuart M., Smith-Turchyn, Jenna, Brooks, Dina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 30.12.2024; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Analysis; Bias; Care and treatment; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Cough; Development and progression; Diseases; Dyspnea; Engineering and Technology; Exercise Test - methods; Exercise Test - standards; Exercise tests; Exercise Tolerance - physiology; Guidelines; Health risk assessment; Humans; Hypothesis testing; Lung diseases; Lung diseases, Obstructive; Measuring instruments; Medicine and Health Sciences; Meta-analysis; Meta-Analysis as Topic; Methods; Physical Sciences; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - diagnosis; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - physiopathology; Quantitative psychology; Relapse; Reproducibility of Results; Research and Analysis Methods; Respiratory diseases; Risk assessment; Sputum; Study Protocol; Synthesis; Systematic review; Systematic Reviews as Topic; Validation studies; Validity; Variation; Canada

Characteristics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can include shortness of breath, chronic cough, sputum production and reduced exercise capacity. The sit-to-stand (STS) test variations (e.g., 5-repetition STS, 30-second STS) may be appropriate outcome measures to assess exercise capac...