title: Integrating education with diagnostics. Patient and technologist.
abstract: Crape states that in relation to the results of spirometry in the Lung Health Study that perhaps the most important message is that pulmonary function technologists need continuous monitoring and feedback to maintain optimum performance. Technologist education is an essential component of producing valid test results.
authors.affiliation: Pulmonary Function Laboratories, Sleep Wake Center, Michigan Capital Healthcare, Lansing, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Blonshine
mesh_terms: D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007318:Inservice Training; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012120:Respiration Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests