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 ...
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 ...
A spirometry is a pulmonary function test that measures how much air a person breathes out, and how quickly. Pulmonary function tests measure how well the lungs are working. It is an office-based ...