MIAMI BEACH -- Family physicians who mastered in-office spirometry report that the readily available technology changed...to 60% of people with these disorders, few have in-office spirometry capability or the training to interpret or use spirometry...

...for more widespread use of office spirometry for the early detection of...primary care physicians perform office spirometry on all patients 45 years or...statement also recommends that office spirometry be used for patients with respiratory...

...University compared the effectiveness and accuracy of office spirometry and a screening questionnaire as used by primary...disease, said Dr. Buffels. As shown in our study, office spirometry nearly doubled the number of known cases of COPD...

...transferring data directly into Windows based electronic medical records. It incorporates information required for office spirometry testing as recommended by the National Lung Health Education Pro gram, and can perform pre- and post bronchodilator...

...Medicine, Washington, D.C. The diagnosis of asthma is made by demonstrating episodic and reversible airway obstruction. Office spirometry or peak flow meters should be used to objectively measure pulmonary status, since the history and physical examination...

...records. It incorporates the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) analysis required for office spirometry testing as recommended by the National Lung Health Education Program. This is the latest addition to the Brentwood...

...appropriate for diagnostic testing, surveillance of occupational lung disease, disability evaluations, or research. Office spirometry's relative simplicity and noninvasiveness makes it an ideal screening test for pulmonary disease. It takes only...

...foremost is the need to use objective measures of pulmonary function to assess and monitor each patient's asthma. Office spirometry is an inexpensive and important tool to diagnose asthma and evaluate response to therapy because symptoms and physical...

...were estimated at $15 billion in 1993.1 For people who smoke and are 45 years of age or older, widespread use of office spirometry by primary care clinicians has been advocated to detect early COPD and to implement intervention to prevent decline...

...test can detect lung disease in smokers Experts in lung disease are calling for more widespread use of a new test - office spirometry - as a critical step in the detection of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in its most treatable stage, particularly...