Four-year calibration stability of the easyone portable spirometer

Respiratory Care

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 873-877

  Skloot, Gwen S ^a   Edwards, Nicole T ^b   Enright, Paul L ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Calibration; Quality control; Reliability; Spirometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; EXHALATION; EXPIRATORY FLOW; HEALTH PROGRAM; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RELIABILITY; SPIROMETER; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; SPIROMETRY; STANDARD;

CALIBRATION; HUMANS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 77955493309     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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