To investigate whether the use of feedback information provided by viewing flow volume (F/V) curves during spirometry performed by practice assistants improves spirometry test quality. Higher PEF ...

The NLHEP recommends the widespread use of spirometry by PCPs for detecting COPD in adult smokers and describes a new type of spirometer for this purpose: the office spirometer. The value of ...

If you have an old spirometer, with no option to read or upload flow-volume or volume-time curves, please ditch it. Without seeing the graphical traces, you cannot accurately detect spurious or ...

British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Feb., 1980), pp. 63-69 (7 pages) The reproducibility of pulmonary function tests in the laboratory and in a mobile field survey vehicle has been ...

To assess the role of risk factors for chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) by multiple logistic models, the data of the first cross-sectional epidemiological survey in the unpolluted rural area of ...