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Spirometry standards
Practice Nursing, 10/12/09
Booker R – Spirometry is an established diagnostic tool in general practice, but its reliability and usefulness depends on patient effort and the competence and knowledge of the person conducting and interpreting it. Concerns have been, and continue to be, expressed about the quality of spirometry in general practice.
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