Evaluation of daily home spirometry for school children with asthma: New insights

Pediatric Pulmonology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 819-828

  Thompson, Rohan ^a,b   Delfino, Ralph J ^b   Tjoa, Thomas ^b   Nussbaum, Eliezer ^a,b   Cooper, Dan ^b  

^a MILLER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Data collection; Evaluation research; Patient compliance; Reproducibility of results; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SPIROMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ASTHMA; CHILD; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 33748045164     PISSN: 87556863     EISSN: 10990496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppul.20449     Document Type: Article

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