Primary care spirometry
Derom, E.; Van Weel, Chris; Liistro, G.; Buffels, J.; Schermer, Tjard R.J.; Lammers, E.; Wouters, Emiel; Decramer, M.
Description
Primary care spirometry is a uniquely valuable tool in the evaluation of patients with respiratory symptoms, allowing the general practitioner to diagnose or exclude chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), sometimes to confirm asthma, to determine the efficacy of asthma treatment and to correctly stage patients with COPD. The use of spirometry for case finding in asymptomatic COPD patients might become an option, once early intervention studies have shown it to be beneficial in these...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2008 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/85007 |
Source: | European Respiratory Journal |
DOI: | 10.1183/09031936.00066607 |
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