Exclusion Spirometry: A Bad Idea Journal Articles

abstract

• No single item or combination of items from the bedside clinical examination can rule out airflow obstruction; for this purpose, spirometry is essential. I, like my colleagues, visually conceptualize chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients using objective lung function testing. I am well aware that spirometry has neither been accepted nor widely performed outside of specialist practice (1). In this issue of the Canadian Respiratory Journal, Almirall and Bégin (pages 195 to 196) provide a very reasoned argument suggesting that obtaining isolated normal values of spirometric indexes can exclude certain conditions.

authors

• McIvor, Andrew

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2004

has subject area

• Family Practice (MeSH)
• Humans (MeSH)
• Respiratory System (Science Metrix)
• Spirometry (MeSH)

published in

• Canadian Respiratory Journal  Journal

keywords

• Family Practice
• Humans
• Spirometry

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1155/2004/609730

PubMed ID

• 15124031

start page

• 186

end page

• 187

volume

• 11

issue

• 3