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Spirometry: Its role in diagnosing and managing asthma
Citation
Walters, J, Spirometry: Its role in diagnosing and managing asthma, Medicine Today: The Peer Reviewed Journal of Clinical Practice, 15, (11) pp. 20-24. ISSN 1443-430X (2014) [Professional, Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Asthma is a disease with variable symptoms and excessive variation in lung function. Diagnosis and management need to be based on airflow assessment with spirometry to prevent overdiagnosis and overtreatment in children and underdiagnosis and undertreatment in older adults.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Professional, Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | asthma, spirometry |
| Research Division: | Medical and Health Sciences |
| Research Group: | Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology |
| Research Field: | Respiratory Diseases |
| Objective Division: | Health |
| Objective Group: | Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) |
| Objective Field: | Respiratory System and Diseases (incl. Asthma) |
| UTAS Author: | Walters, J (Dr Julia Walters) |
| ID Code: | 98714 |
| Year Published: | 2014 |
| Deposited By: | Medicine |
| Deposited On: | 2015-02-26 |
| Last Modified: | 2015-02-26 |
| Downloads: | 1 View Download Statistics |
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