Accuracy of office spirometry performed by trained primary-care physicians using the MIR spirobank hand-held spirometer

Respiration

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 543-552

  Degryse, J ^a,b   Buffels, J ^a   Van Dijck, Y ^a   Decramer, M ^a   Nemery, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Office spirometry; Primary care; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SPIROMETER; SPIROMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS, PRIMARY CARE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPIROMETRY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862754491     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334907     Document Type: Article

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