Comprehensive quality control for pulmonary function testing: It's time to face the music

Respiratory Care

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-357

  Haynes, Jeffrey M ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; EDITORIAL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG FLOW VOLUME CURVE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PERFORMANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; SPIROMETRY;

FEEDBACK; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 77949341644     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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