Interpreting lung oscillometry results: Z-scores or fixed cut-off values?

Sundeep Salvi; Deesha Ghorpade; Nitin Vanjare; Sapna Madas; Anurag Agrawal

doi:10.1183/23120541.00656-2022

Interpreting lung oscillometry results: Z-scores or fixed cut-off values?

ERJ Open Res. 2023 Mar 27;9(2):00656-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00656-2022. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Authors

Sundeep Salvi^{1

2}, Deesha Ghorpade¹, Nitin Vanjare³, Sapna Madas¹, Anurag Agrawal⁴

Affiliations

¹ Pulmocare Research and Education Foundation, Pune, India.
² Faculty of Health Sciences, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India.
³ Department of Connected Devices, IQVIA, Thane, India.
⁴ Ashoka University, Sonepat, India.

Abstract

Instead of using % predicted values or Z-scores to define and quantify respiratory abnormality in oscillometry, fixed cut-off values will likely give more accurate discrimination https://bit.ly/3vVmIyE.