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Office-Based Spirometry: A New Model of Care in Preoperative Assessment for Low-Risk Lung Resections

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(17)31109-8/fulltext

Author(s)

Jessica L. Hudson, Jennifer M. Bell, Traves D. Crabtree, Daniel Kreisel, G. Alexander Patterson, Bryan F. Meyers, Varun Puri

The authors compared low risk patients undergoing office spirometry only (FEV₁ of >60%) to those undergoing laboratory spirometry followed by lung resection. Outcomes for propensity score matched patients were similar for complications, length of stay, and readmission. Use of office-based spirometry was estimated to save their insitution $38,000 annually.