Screening tests for pulmonary function abnormality.
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Screening tests for pulmonary function abnormality.
Simple tests based on a voluntary forced expiration can detect pulmonary impairment of occupational or environmental origin earlier than can be done using clinical or radiographic examination. These tests are easily performed and repeated, require little time and can be readily set up in the field. Flow impairment ("obstructive") has conventionally been measured by the forced expiratory volume-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7511243