Impact of using spirometry on clinical decision making and quality of life in children: protocol for a single centre randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Although spirometry has been available for decades, it is underused in paediatric practice, other than in specialist clinics. This is unsurprising as there is limited evidence on the benefit of routine spirometry in improving clinical decision making and/or outcomes for children. We hypothesised that using spirometry for children being evaluated for respiratory diseases impacts on clinical decision making and/or improves patient-related outcome measures (PROMs) and/or quality of life (QoL), compared with not using spirometry.

Methods and analysis

We are undertaking a randomised controlled trial (commenced in March 2020) that will include 106 children (aged 4-18 years) recruited from respiratory clinics at Queensland Children's Hospital, Australia. Inclusion crit

SUBMITTER: Boonjindasup W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8458340 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature