Must family physicians use spirometry in managing asthma patients?: NO.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Use of Asthma APGAR Tools in Primary Care Practices: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.Annals of family medicine · 2018
   Trial
2. Exploring the 175-year history of spirometry and the vital lessons it can teach us today.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2021
   Review
3. Patterns of bronchial challenge testing in Canada.Canadian journal of respiratory therapy : CJRT = Revue canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR · 2018
   Article
4. The challenge of objective confirmation of asthma diagnosis in primary care.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2014
   Article
5. Is the family physician an accomplice in the development of the 'primary care gap'? The importance of high quality real-life primary care respiratory research.Primary care respiratory journal : journal of the General Practice Airways Group · 2013
   Article
6. Protocol for the asthma tools study: a pragmatic practice-based research network trial.Pragmatic and observational research · 2013
   Article
7. Cover concerns.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2010
   Article

Corrections and comments

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  Must family physicians use spirometry in managing asthma patients?: YES.2010

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

Abstract

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