Long term performance of a hand held spirometer

Thorax

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 973-976

  Dirksen, Asger ^a,b   Madsen, Flemming ^b   Pedersen, Ole Find ^c   Vedel, Anne Mette ^a   Kok Jensen, Axel ^a  

^a BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Hand held turbine spirometer; Long term reproducibility; Patient administered serial spirometry (PASS); Volume and flow calibration

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETER; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0029804159     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.51.10.973     Document Type: Article

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