Despite these benefits, most physicians in clinical practice rely only on history and clinical examination to make a diagnosis of OAD and to start pharmacotherapy. 4 This approach leads to both ...

In this paper, the need for widespread use of spirometry in primary healthcare is appraised through a literature review. The added value of spirometry for and the quality of measurements made by ...

We all know that asthma impacts breathing. What may be less known is that the disease, which restricts our airways due to ...

The NLHEP recommends the widespread use of spirometry by PCPs for detecting COPD in adult smokers and describes a new type of spirometer for this purpose: the office spirometer. The value of ...