15 Value of peak flow readings in the safe administration of immunotherapy in asthmaticsThe Oxi/Ferm test system was evaluated for accuracy and reliability for identification of nonfermentative and oxidase-positive fermentative bacteria by using 375 bacterial strains obtained from stock culture and ...
Asthma Patients\" Knowledge of Use of Peak Flow Meters and Interpretation of Readings None - 《Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health》 被引量: 0发表: 1992年 Physiologic Measures: Pulmonary function tests When the effectiveness of asthma interventions are evaluated in the ...
peak flow test at work and outside work and then compare the readings. If the reading suggests that you have occupational asthma, your doctor will refer you to a occupational medicine specialist and/or ask you to take some tests to see if you are allergic to some of the common causes of...
the chronic use of corticosteroids.Citation23,Citation24In addition, patients need to understand the interpretation of peak flow meter readings, and how this is reflected in their asthma status.Citation25–27The ANQ is a unique tool that assesses the extent of knowledge related to these aspects in...
(medical alert stage). These stages are determined bypeak flow meterreadings that measure your breathing. Green is for the times when peak flow readings are 80% to 100% of your personal best reading; yellow for when the peak flow is 50% to 79% of your best; and red for when breathing...
Intervention group: tele-monitoring Patients in the intervention group will be issued with a Piko peak flow meter (nSpire Health, Hertford, UK) and the t+ Asthma software (t+ Medical, Abingdon, UK) will be loaded onto their mobile phone (or a loaned phone if their own is unsuitable). ...
Prim Care Respir J 2013; 22(3): 365-373 CASE-BASED LEARNING 'SIMPLES': a structured primary care approach to adults with difficult asthma *Dermot Ryan1, Anna Murphy2, Bjorn Stallberg3, Noel Baxter4, Liam G Heaney5 1 General Practitioner, Woodbrook Medical Centre, Loughborough, UK; ...
assessed in this review) appear to be unreliable and should not be used: we were unable to identify the underlying calculation for most; numeric errors were present in those that we could verify and only one attempted to compensate for differences in readings from different peak flow meter ...
Barriers that affected self-efficacy included lack of office time to properly measure peak flow, inadequate staff or physician training, and poor follow-up to use PFM readings. Low outcome expectancy was mentioned in relation to poor patient compliance. Furthermore, patients were not always able ...
the links between air pollution exposure and asthma onset, acute asthma exacerbations as well as the impact of air pollution on the longer-term deterioration on respiratory health (Fig.3a). In addition, an overview of Asthma + Lung UK’s recommended behaviour advice for managing asthma in relati...