Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black patients’ lung allocation scores were lower using a race-specific vs. race-neutral equation. Race-neutral ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many general practitioners need help interpreting spirometry. An AI-based software had 88% diagnostic accuracy ...

Interpreting spirometry with race-specific reference equations led to a lower Lung Allocation Score (LAS) for Black patients and higher LAS among White patients, which could potentially contribute to ...

Upon implementing race-neutral equations, there was a decrease in z scores among Black children for forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1; mean difference −0.814, 95% CI −0.823 to −0.806, P<0.001 ...

The recent statement on interpretive strategies for lung testing uses the acronym PRISm for preserved ratio impaired spirometry. PRISm identifies patients with a normal forced expiratory volume in 1 ...

In 2008, as part of the changes to develop integrated health care services in the Canterbury region of New Zealand, the local health board in collaboration with general practitioners, respiratory ...

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 ...

Pulmonary function testing serves 2 important clinical goals: (1) categorizing the physiologic impairment from lung disease (ie, obstructive, restrictive, etc) and (2) quantifying the degree of ...