Establishing the minimal clinically important difference of the 6-min walk test in lung transplant recipients undergoing pulmonary rehabilitation: a prospective analysis
The 6MWT is responsive to PR in LTRs. A MCID of 56.83 m provides a clinically meaningful benchmark for interpreting exercise capacity changes and can guide sample size estimation in future trials.
Authors
- Peijian Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3622-4538)
- Lijun Ge
- Beiyao Gao
- Shan Jiang
- Yang Yu
- Jing Sun
Institutions
- Academy of Medical Sciences (GB)
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (CN)
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital (CN)
- National Clinical Research (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Frontiers in Medicine
- Published
- 2026-01-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2026.1740439
- Primary Topic
- Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences
- China-Japan Friendship Hospital