UTMB study shows cost-effective expert recommended asthma test underutilized by physicians

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have found, for the first time, that spirometry was underutilized for asthma diagnosis and management in US adults from 2001 to 2011, despite it's accuracy, cost effectiveness and the publication of national guidelines advocating its use.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news