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Must family physicians use spirometry in managing asthma patients?: NO.

Anthony D D’Urzo

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Abstract

Stanbrook and Kaplan have previously suggested that “physicians who do not use spirometry for their asthma patients should not be managing asthma.”[1][1] They have put forth the notion that asthma management without spirometry testing would be considered failing to maintain an adequate standard

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Stanbrook and Kaplan have previously suggested that “physicians who do not use spirometry for their asthma patients should not be managing asthma.”[1][1] They have put forth the notion that asthma management without spirometry testing would be considered failing to maintain an adequate standard

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Stanbrook and Kaplan have previously suggested that “physicians who do not use spirometry for their asthma patients should not be managing asthma.”[1][1] They have put forth the notion that asthma management without spirometry testing would be considered failing to maintain an adequate standard

Key concepts: Spirometry, Asthma, Medicine, Family medicine, Computer science, Data science, World Wide Web, Internal medicine

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