Provide GPs with spirometry, not spirometers

Thorax

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 387-388

  Enright, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHODILATING AGENT;

AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EDITORIAL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; SCREENING TEST; SPIROMETER; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 43749092223     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2007.092916     Document Type: Editorial

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