BTS and SIGN guidelines revealed significant changes to current approaches including the tests used to diagnose asthma. It advised clinicians to use a stepwise series of tests including eosinophil ...

BTS and SIGN guidelines revealed significant changes to current approaches including the tests used to diagnose asthma. It advised GPs to use a stepwise series of tests including eosinophil count, ...

Spirometry is a test used to investigate the cause of symptoms such as breathlessness, cough and wheeze, and is essential for diagnosing and managing asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

GP and respiratory expert Dr Andrew Whittamore outlines the key updates in new joint NICE/BTS/SIGN asthma guidelines and advises on how best to implement the changes NICE has worked with BTS and SIGN ...

Massachusetts families are still struggling to find alternatives about a year after GlaxoSmithKline canceled a widely prescribed children’s asthma medication, a problem given renewed urgency as ...

This package lets you generate entity relation diagrams by inspecting the relationships defined in your model files. It is highly customizable. Behind the scenes, it uses GraphViz to generate the ...

Measurement and results: Thirty-one asthma patients completed 3 weeks of monitoring. A paired t test showed no difference between unsupervised and supervised home spirometry self-testing.

The value of spirometry for aiding the diagnosis of COPD and asthma, when performed by trained ... the first prospective study of > 1,000 spirometry tests performed by nurses in the outpatient ...