NEW YORK, NY – March 02, 2022 – In the latest update to the pulmonary function tests technical standard series, the American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society address the uncertainty ...

Pulmonary function testing serves 2 important clinical goals: (1) categorizing the physiologic impairment from lung disease (ie, obstructive, restrictive, etc) and (2) quantifying the degree of ...

Credit: Getty Images The road to race-neutral pulmonary function testing has been long and evolving; now, ATS recommends this approach and a Boston hospital offers an implementation model. In July, ...

What are pulmonary function tests? Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are tests of lung function. They are intended to evaluate and monitor chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD is ...

Quality improvement, standardisation of spirometry testing, and interpretation of results are critically important in the occupational setting. Every day we encounter several workers who are referred ...

ATS 2021, New York, NY - By removing "race correction" from the interpretation of pulmonary function test (PFT) results, Black individuals were shown to have a significantly higher prevalence and ...

Examining a patient for common or complex pulmonary issues in a primary care setting takes time and expertise — physicians need to ask about symptoms and medical history and determine which tests to ...

A spirometry is a pulmonary function test that measures how much air a person breathes out, and how quickly. Pulmonary function tests measure how well the lungs are working. It is an office-based ...

Using race-neutral rather than race and ethnicity-specific reference equations to interpret pulmonary function tests (PFTs) increased the number of Black individuals considered to have respiratory ...

Earlier this year, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) published an official statement recommending against the use of race- and ethnicity-specific reference equations for the interpretation of ...