How representative are clinical trial cohorts of the general CF population? Implications for trial planning.

Understanding the number of patients eligible to participate in research is important to design protocols and define research priorities. We reviewed the records of all patients with CF, age 12+, who receive care at our centre. We assessed their eligibility for trial participation based on common trial inclusion/exclusion criteria.

Migration is not the perfect answer: How the cross-talk error correction for multiple breath nitrogen washout (MBWN ) parameters differs on directly collected vs. legacy data.

Recently, a cross-talk error with commercial multiple breath nitrogen washout (MBWN ) software was discovered, which produced an absolute over-reading of N of approximately 1%, i.e., 2% N read as 3%.