Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black children had lower FEV 1 and FVC percent predicted after race-neutral vs. -specific equation use. Black vs ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 new category of spirometers, office spirometers, should be available for use in the primary-care setting. Each new model must successfully pass a validation study (see Appendix 1). The FEV 1 percent ...

Race-neutral equations for assessing lung function appeared to catch more true-abnormal findings for Black patients than did previously standard race-adjusted spirometry equations, a study showed.

Airways dysanapsis, a mismatch between airway calibre and lung volume, has long been observed as a physiological variant ...

The American Thoracic Society now recommends use of average reference equations rather than those based on race or ethnicity for the assessment of pulmonary function in clinical and laboratory ...

Spirometry can be performed in GPs' surgeries but test quality and accuracy of interpretation are uncertain. Six randomly selected practices (6000+ patients) were provided with a spirometer, training, ...

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 ...

Baylor College of Medicine pulmonologist Dr. Nick Hanania is developing a plan to get more medical professionals to perform a fairly simple, yet underused, test to more accurately diagnose and better ...