Identifying adults at risk of COPD who need confirmatory spirometry in primary care: Do symptom-based questions help?

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hill, Kylie ^a   Hodder, Richard ^b   Blouin, Maria ^c   Heels Ansdell, Diane ^d   Guyatt, Gordon ^d   Goldstein, Roger ^c,e  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c WEST PARK HEALTHCARE CENTRE   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CASE FINDING QUESTIONNAIRE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL DYSPNEA SCALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; WHEEZING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SPIROMETRY;

EID: 79952095548     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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