title: [Spirometry for the primary care physician? For which patient?].
abstract: Spirometry is the simplest pulmonary function test and recently became available to all physicians by means of economic and performing devices. Spirometry however requires a good knowledge of indications, realization and interpretation. Expert recommendations, regularly updated by the American and European respiratory societies, specify the necessary conditions for spirometry to provide useful information for the care of patients.
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne. pierre-yves.jayet@chuv.ch
authors.forename: Pierre-Yves
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Jayet
authors.forename: Raphaël
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Heinzer
authors.forename: Jean-William
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Fitting
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D006801:Humans; D008449:Maximal Expiratory Flow-Volume Curves; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests / Q000379:methods; D013147:Spirometry / Q000592:standards; D013557:Switzerland; D014797:Vital Capacity