Volume 3, Number 3, June 2009

Spirometers in primary care: uses and limitations
Rachel Booker

Modern medical practice emphasises the use of objective measurements and evidence. Nobody would diagnose hypertension without measuring the blood pressure, or manage diabetes without measuring blood sugar and glycated haemoglobin. Yet it is only relatively recently that any lung function measurements to support diagnosis and guide management of respiratory disease were undertaken in primary care.

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