Reliability of PEF diaries

From Pef to Aadm

S OF TALKS PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONALMATHEMATICAL CONFERENCE TOPICS IN MATHEMATICAL ANALYSISAND GRAPH THEORY (MAGT) A Satellite Meeting to ICM 2006 BELGRADE, SERBIA, SEPTEMBER 1–4, 2006. Editorial note. Selected peer-refereed full presented at MAGT 2006, are publishedin: Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, 1, No. 1 (2007).

monitoring in adolescents with asthma Compliance and reliability of electronic PEF

Amplitude balanced PEF estimation

Inverse theory teaches us that the residual, or misfit function, should be weighted by the inverse covariance matrix of the noise. Because the covariance operator is often difficult to estimate, we can approximate it with a diagonal weight that can be more easily computed. This paper investigates the possible choices of weighting functions for the data residual when prediction-error filters are...

Compliance and reliability of electronic PEF monitoring in adolescents with asthma.

Self-management education is the cornerstone of modern asthma care and consists of self-monitoring, transfer of information, a written action plan, and regular medical review. Current international guidelines recommend the use of home monitoring of peak expiratory flow (PEF) as a part of selfmonitoring. PEF recordings potentially provide valuable information on risk prediction of asthma episode...

Peak expiratory flow (PEF) monitoring.

T he Wright peak expiratory flow meter was introduced in 1959 and provided a portable piece of equipment for assessing some aspects of lung function in the ambulatory care setting. The original device has been supplanted by the mini Wright peak flow meter (and a range of other devices) which have become relatively cheap but are reasonably reliable for home monitoring. So, with an available devi...