Authors:
Stanojevic, S.; Hall, G. L.
Authors notes:
Respirology. 2011;16(5):869
Keywords:
reference equations, spirometric outcomes, public health
Abstract:
Few clinical respiratory laboratories have
assessed the impact of changing reference equations
on the interpretation of spirometric outcomes nor
compared the impact of using the increasingly
refuted approach of having fixed definitions of abnormal
lung function, compared with the lower limit of
normal.2