1,317
Views
41
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Use of Spirometry in the Diagnosis of COPD: A Qualitative Study in Primary Care

, , , &
Pages 444-449 | Published online: 28 Mar 2013

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Read on this site (10)

Nadia Al wachami, Maryem Arraji, Younes Iderdar, Yassmine Mourajid, Karima Boumendil, Fatima Zahra Bouchachi, Samira Jaouhar, Morad Guennouni, Fatimazahra Laamiri, Noureddine Elkhoudri, Lahcen Bandadi, Mohamed Lahbib Louerdi, Abderraouf Hilali & Mohamed Chahboune. (2024) Prevalence and Risk Factors of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Users of Primary Health Care Facilities in Morocco. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 19, pages 375-387.
Read now
Rebecca Ingenhoff, Nicole Robertson, Richard Munana, Benjamin E Bodnar, Ivan Weswa, Isaac Sekitoleko, Julia Gaal, Bruce J Kirenga, Robert Kalyesubula, Felix Knauf & Trishul Siddharthan. (2023) Challenges to Implementation of Community Health Worker-Led Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Screening and Referral in Rural Uganda: A Qualitative Study using the Implementation Outcomes Framework. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 18, pages 2769-2783.
Read now
Brigitte Vachon, Guylaine Giasson, Isabelle Gaboury, Dina Gaid, Véronique Noël De Tilly, Lise Houle, Jean Bourbeau & Marie-Pascale Pomey. (2022) Challenges and Strategies for Improving COPD Primary Care Services in Quebec: Results of the Experience of the COMPAS+ Quality Improvement Collaborative. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 17, pages 259-272.
Read now
Barbara P Yawn, Matthew L Mintz & Dennis E Doherty. (2021) GOLD in Practice: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Treatment and Management in the Primary Care Setting. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 16, pages 289-299.
Read now
Audrey Desjardins, Marie-Ève Boulay, Myriam Gagné, Mathieu Simon & Louis-Philippe Boulet. (2020) Family medicine physician teachers and residents’ intentions to prescribe and interpret spirometry: a descriptive cross-sectional study. Journal of Asthma 57:2, pages 149-159.
Read now
Chan Yeu Pu, Nancy Quesada, Richard Nunez Lopez, Karmapath Aryal & Aiman Tulaimat. (2019) The clinical implications of tests confirming COPD in subjects hospitalized with exacerbations. Hospital Practice 47:1, pages 59-65.
Read now
Michael John Peck, Edward B. Sanders, Gerhard Scherer, Frank Lüdicke & Rolf Weitkunat. (2018) Review of biomarkers to assess the effects of switching from cigarettes to modified risk tobacco products. Biomarkers 23:3, pages 213-244.
Read now
Te-Wei Ho, Sheng-Yuan Ruan, Chun-Ta Huang, Yi-Ju Tsai, Feipei Lai & Chong-Jen Yu. (2018) Validity of ICD9-CM codes to diagnose chronic obstructive pulmonary disease from National Health Insurance claim data in Taiwan. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 13, pages 3055-3063.
Read now
Kerry Spero, Ghiath Bayasi, Linda Beaudry, Kimberly R Barber & Fahim Khorfan. (2017) Overdiagnosis of COPD in hospitalized patients. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 12, pages 2417-2423.
Read now
Carlos A Vaz Fragoso, Terrence E Murphy, George O Agogo, Heather G Allore & Gail J McAvay. (2017) Asthma–COPD overlap syndrome in the US: a prospective population-based analysis of patient-reported outcomes and health care utilization. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 12, pages 517-527.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (31)

Michael Campos, Brian HagenlockerJorge Lascano & Leonard Riley. (2023) Impact of a Computerized Clinical Decision Support System to Improve Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Diagnosis and Testing for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 20:8, pages 1116-1123.
Crossref
Åsa Athlin, Karin Lisspers, Mikael Hasselgren, Björn Ställberg, Christer Janson, Scott Montgomery, Maaike Giezeman, Marta Kisiel, Anna Nager, Hanna Sandelowsky, Mats Arne & Josefin Sundh. (2023) Diagnostic spirometry in COPD is increasing, a comparison of two Swedish cohorts. npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine 33:1.
Crossref
Kevin I. Duan, Lucas M. Donovan, Laura J. Spece, Laura C. Feemster, Alexander D. Bryant, Robert PlumleyMargaret P. CollinsDavid H. Au. (2023) Trends and Rural–Urban Differences in the Initial Prescription of Low-Value Inhaled Corticosteroids among U.S. Veterans with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 20:5, pages 668-676.
Crossref
Daniel Habteslassie, Sadie Khorramnia, Sanjeevan Muruganandan, Nicholas Romeo, Katharine See & Liam M. Hannan. (2022) Missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis: how often do hospitalised patients with a diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have spirometry that supports the diagnosis?. Internal Medicine Journal 53:4, pages 510-516.
Crossref
Allison V. Lange, Anuj B. Mehta & David B. Bekelman. (2023) How Important is Spirometry for Identifying Patients with COPD Appropriate for Palliative Care?. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 65:3, pages e181-e187.
Crossref
Obianuju B. Ozoh, Sandra Dede, Joy Eze, Kevin Mortimer & Martha Chinouya. (2022) Nigerian doctors’ experiences of guideline-based asthma management: a qualitative study. Journal of Global Health Reports 6.
Crossref
Lisa Pagano, Zoe McKeough, Sally Wootton, Nicholas Zwar & Sarah Dennis. (2022) Accuracy of the COPD diagnostic questionnaire as a screening tool in primary care. BMC Primary Care 23:1.
Crossref
Esther Pacheco, Augustine J. Sohn, Christina Wells, Lisa K. Sharp, Samantha Madrid, Todd A. Lee, Yi-Fan Chen, Barbara P. Yawn, Diana Garcia, Kyungran Shim, Nancy Quesada & Min J. Joo. (2022) Design of the Reducing Diagnostic Error to Improve Patient Safety (REDEfINE) in COPD and asthma study: A cluster randomized comparative effectiveness trial. Contemporary Clinical Trials 123, pages 106971.
Crossref
Barbara P. Yawn. (2022) Developing and Disseminating Evidence to Support Enhanced Spirometry Use in Primary Care Diagnosis of Asthma and COPD. Chest 161:4, pages 865-866.
Crossref
Janet Yamada, Jeffrey Lam Shin Cheung, Myriam Gagne, Carolyn Spiegel-Feld, Shawn D. Aaron, J. Mark FitzGerald, Andrea S. Gershon & Samir Gupta. (2022) Barriers and Enablers to Objective Testing for Asthma and COPD in Primary Care. Chest 161:4, pages 888-905.
Crossref
Matthieu Bremond, Anthony Berthelot, Laurent Plantier, Hervé Breton & Maxime Pautrat. (2021) Micro-phenomenological approach to explore the patient experience during an initial spirometry examination to diagnose COPD in general practice in France. BMJ Open 11:7, pages e049121.
Crossref
Matthew F. Griffith, Hung-Yuan P. Chen, David B. Bekelman, Laura C. Feemster, Laura J. Spece, Lucas M. Donovan, David H. Au & Evan P. Carey. (2021) Comorbid Anxiety and Depression, Though Underdiagnosed, Are Not Associated with High Rates of Low-Value Care in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 18:3, pages 442-451.
Crossref
Matthew F. Griffith, Laura C. Feemster, Steven B. Zeliadt, Lucas M. Donovan, Laura J. Spece, Edmunds M. Udris & David H. Au. (2019) Overuse and Misuse of Inhaled Corticosteroids Among Veterans with COPD: a Cross-sectional Study Evaluating Targets for De-implementation. Journal of General Internal Medicine 35:3, pages 679-686.
Crossref
Kathleen M. Akgün, Keith Sigel, Kei-Hoi Cheung, Farah Kidwai-Khan, Alex K. Bryant, Cynthia Brandt, Amy Justice & Kristina Crothers. (2020) Extracting lung function measurements to enhance phenotyping of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in an electronic health record using automated tools. PLOS ONE 15:1, pages e0227730.
Crossref
Greta Ragaišienė, Rūta Kibarskytė, Rasa Gauronskaitė, Monika Giedraitytė, Agnė Dapšauskaitė, Vytautas Kasiulevičius & Edvardas Danila. (2019) Diagnosing COPD in primary care: what has real life practice got to do with guidelines?. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine 14:1.
Crossref
Heying Chu, Xiangwen Qu, Feng Wang, Jingxia Chang, Ruirui Cheng, Xiangjin Song, Tengfei Chen & Guojun Zhang. (2019) MicroRNA-206 promotes lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation injury via regulation of IRAK1 in MRC-5 cells. International Immunopharmacology 73, pages 590-598.
Crossref
Erin Morgan & Janice Lazear. (2019) Implementation of Pulmonary Function Testing in Rural Primary Care. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 15:4, pages e81-e83.
Crossref
Laura J. Spece & Laura C. Feemster. (2019) Aligning Prescribing Practices with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Guidelines: A Sisyphean Struggle?. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 16:2, pages 187-188.
Crossref
Kristina Crothers, Carla V. Rodriguez, Robin M. Nance, Kathleen Akgun, Shahida Shahrir, Joon Kim, Guy W. Soo Hoo, Amir Sharafkhaneh, Heidi M. Crane & Amy C. Justice. (2018) Accuracy of electronic health record data for the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in persons living with HIV and uninfected persons. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 28:2, pages 140-147.
Crossref
Hakan Demirci, Koncuy Eniste, Ebru Onuker Basaran, Gokhan Ocakoglu, Zeynep Yilmaz & Sumeyye Tuna. (2017) A multicenter family practitioners’ research on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease screening using the COPD Assessment Test. Primary Health Care Research & Development 18:06, pages 603-607.
Crossref
Karen Strivens. (2017) Using spirometry as a diagnostic tool in COPD management. Practice Nursing 28:3, pages 108-112.
Crossref
Duncan Chambers, Andrew Booth, Susan K Baxter, Maxine Johnson, Katherine C Dickinson & Elizabeth C Goyder. (2016) Evidence for models of diagnostic service provision in the community: literature mapping exercise and focused rapid reviews. Health Services and Delivery Research 4:35, pages 1-362.
Crossref
Samir Gupta, Dilshad Moosa, Ana MacPherson, Christopher Allen & Itamar E. Tamari. (2016) Effects of a 12-month multi-faceted mentoring intervention on knowledge, quality, and usage of spirometry in primary care: a before-and-after study. BMC Pulmonary Medicine 16:1.
Crossref
Elena Tambo-Lizalde, José Miguel Carrasco-Gimeno, Susana Mayoral-Blasco, María José Rabanaque-Hernández & José María Abad-Díez. (2016) Percepciones de pacientes y profesionales sobre la calidad de la atención a personas con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica. Atención Primaria 48:2, pages 85-94.
Crossref
Douglas W. Mapel, Anand A. Dalal, Phaedra Johnson, Laura Becker & Alyssa Goolsby Hunter. (2015) A Clinical Study of COPD Severity Assessment by Primary Care Physicians and Their Patients Compared with Spirometry. The American Journal of Medicine 128:6, pages 629-637.
Crossref
Bridget F. Collins, Laura C. Feemster, Seppo T. Rinne & David H. Au. (2015) Factors Predictive of Airflow Obstruction Among Veterans with Presumed Empirical Diagnosis and Treatment of COPD. Chest 147:2, pages 369-376.
Crossref
Bridget F. Collins, David Ramenofsky, David H. Au, Jun Ma, Jane E. Uman & Laura C. Feemster. (2014) The Association of Weight With the Detection of Airflow Obstruction and Inhaled Treatment Among Patients With a Clinical Diagnosis of COPD. Chest 146:6, pages 1513-1520.
Crossref
Claudio M Sanguinetti, Fernando De Benedetto, Claudio F Donner, Stefano Nardini & Alberto Visconti. (2014) Pneumocafé project: an inquiry on current COPD diagnosis and management among General Practitioners in Italy through a novel tool for professional education. Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine 9:1.
Crossref
David H. Au & Laura C. Feemster. (2014) Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Health Disparity and Inequity. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 11:8, pages 1250-1251.
Crossref
Sean P. O’Reilly. (2014) Challenges in the Diagnosis of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Current Emergency and Hospital Medicine Reports 2:3, pages 138-142.
Crossref
Shawn P. E. Nishi, Yue Wang, Yong-Fang Kuo, James S. Goodwin & Gulshan Sharma. (2013) Spirometry Use among Older Adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: 1999–2008. Annals of the American Thoracic Society 10:6, pages 565-573.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.