Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pre-clinic phone call reminders improved the number of patients with cystic fibrosis who submitted home ...

Spirometry is the only recognized method of definitively diagnosing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 1 It also gives patients and physicians a reliable way of tracking the progression 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 ...

An inaccurate spirometer is worse than useless. But having an accurate one is not a matter of belief or faith; it is a matter of proof. Furthermore, this must be documented proof. Without a documented ...