Among patients with asthma-like symptoms in primary care, testing using home spirometry may be useful for the diagnosis of ...
Recent studies show that many patients are being treated for COPD without confirmatory spirometry. In-office testing is easy and available. A recent study showed that only 32% of patients admitted to ...
"Despite the clinical guidelines supporting the use of spirometry to identify asthma and COPD, many patients do not receive the test prior to receiving a diagnosis," says Dr. Min Joo, principal ...