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What criteria do you use to determine if a change is clinically significant while evaluating PFTs?

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Pulmonology · Mayo Clinic

This can be determined using various criteria, including whether or not a measurement has dropped below certain severity thresholds and/or if the observed change is greater than one might expect through general variability. Various professional societies have recommended using the lower limit of nor...

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