Journal•ISSN: 1471-4418
Primary Care Respiratory Journal
Springer Nature
About: Primary Care Respiratory Journal is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Asthma & COPD. It has an ISSN identifier of 1471-4418. Over the lifetime, 865 publications have been published receiving 16749 citations.
Topics: Asthma, COPD, Spirometry, Health care, Population
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TL;DR: An ACT score <19 is useful for identifying patients with poorly controlled asthma as defined by GINA, and correctly predicted GINA-defined partly controlled/uncontrolled asthma 94% of the time.
255 citations
TL;DR: This Standards Document aims to provide detailed information for clinicians, managers and healthcare commissioners on the key areas of quality required for diagnostic spirometry in primary care--including training requirements and quality assurance.
199 citations
TL;DR: The broad range of determining factors suggests that, in order to reach the management goals, health status should be measured in addition to lung function in patients with COPD.
191 citations
TL;DR: This paper is focussed upon the early identification and diagnosis of chronic respiratory diseases in primary care and uses a symptom-based approach, and includes original questionnaires and diagnostic guides to help the primary care clinician proceed systematically through the diagnostic process.
179 citations
TL;DR: The use of a multidimensional grading system, taking into account dyspnoea as well as the nutritional status of COPD patients, is likely to influence the distribution of disease severity in a primary care population.
178 citations