Support of an Asthma/COPD service for general practitioners in daily care

A.E.M. Lucas

doi:10.26481/dis.20120907al

Support of an Asthma/COPD service for general practitioners in daily care

A.E.M. Lucas

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Abstract

An asthma/COPD service supports the General Practitioner with the complicated diagnostics of asthma/COPD by performing lung function measurements, which lung specialist consultants subsequently assess together with a filled out questionnaire. Research into the quality of the asthma/COPD service shows that this diagnostic procedure ‘on paper’ is reliable and just as good as a ‘live’ assessment in the lung specialist’s consulting room. The asthma/COPD service signals misdiagnosis and overtreatment in patients that use medication even before the diagnose is made. Making the right diagnoses and additional advising with these and other diagnostic problems makes the asthma/COPD service a valuable diagnostic provision for General Practitioners and their patients.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	Maastricht University
Supervisors/Advisors	van Schayck, Constant, Supervisor Smeenk, Frank, Co-Supervisor Smeele, I.J.M., Co-Supervisor, External person
Award date	7 Sept 2012
Place of Publication	Maastricht
Publisher	Maastricht University
Print ISBNs	9789461083210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20120907al
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012

Keywords

asthma/COPD diagnostics
cooperation primary care
misdiagnosis

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