A Guide to Performing Quality Assured Diagnostic Spirometry

This step-by-step guide shows clinicians how to ensure that diagnostic spirometry performed in primary care and other settings is quality assured and provides valid results for patients. It details how spirometry should be performed, the interpretation and reporting of results and methods for quality assurance. The guide also illustrates common technical errors and offers a Top Ten Tips for reporting spirometry results.   The guide can also be used by commissioners alongside the Commissioning Toolkit for Respiratory Services to specify spirometry service standards.  
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