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Clinical assessment of respiratory disease should establish the cause of symptoms, define functional impairment and inform management.These aims often require more than one measure.This issue brings together seven original studies on pulmonary function testing, rehabilitation, patient-reported outcomes and prognosis.The papers span airway disease, stem cell transplantation, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), pneumonia and other interstitial lung diseases (ILD).
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