Physician Alert Suggesting Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Testing in Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) Results

Franck Rahaghi Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, USA

Ismael Ortega Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, USA

Nicholas Rahaghi Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Eduardo Oliveira Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, USA

Jose Ramirez Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, USA

Laurence Smolley Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida, USA

James K. Stoller Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with airflow obstruction (of GOLD stage > II on post-bronchodilator spirometry) in the “pre-alert period” and the “physician alert” intervention period

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Table 2 The monthly and overall rate of misclassifying spirometry reports for inclusion of the physician alert during the physician alert period

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Table 3 Number of tests needed to identify a severely deficient AATD patient at 95% certainty, based on various estimates of the prevalence of severe AATD among patients with COPD

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Physician Alert Suggesting Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Testing in Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) Results

Table 1 Characteristics of patients with airflow obstruction (of GOLD stage > II on post-bronchodilator spirometry) in the “pre-alert period” and the “physician alert” intervention period

Table 2 The monthly and overall rate of misclassifying spirometry reports for inclusion of the physician alert during the physician alert period

Table 3 Number of tests needed to identify a severely deficient AATD patient at 95% certainty, based on various estimates of the prevalence of severe AATD among patients with COPD

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Physician Alert Suggesting Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Testing in Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) Results

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Table 1 Characteristics of patients with airflow obstruction (of GOLD stage > II on post-bronchodilator spirometry) in the “pre-alert period” and the “physician alert” intervention period

Table 2 The monthly and overall rate of misclassifying spirometry reports for inclusion of the physician alert during the physician alert period

Table 3 Number of tests needed to identify a severely deficient AATD patient at 95% certainty, based on various estimates of the prevalence of severe AATD among patients with COPD

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