How Local SARS-CoV-2 Prevalence Shapes Pulmonary Function Testing Laboratory Protocols and Practices During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chest. 2021 Oct;160(4):1241-1244. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.05.011. Epub 2021 May 15.

Authors

Matthew J Saunders¹, Jeffrey M Haynes², Meredith C McCormack³, Sanja Stanojevic⁴, David A Kaminsky⁵

Affiliations

¹ University of Vermont, Burlington, VT.
² St. Joseph Hospital, Nashua, NH.
³ Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
⁴ Department of Community Health and Epidemiology (S. Stanojevic), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
⁵ Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, VT. Electronic address: david.kaminsky@uvm.edu.

No abstract available

Publication types

Multicenter Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / diagnosis*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
Clinical Laboratory Techniques / standards*
Humans
Laboratories / standards*
Pandemics*
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2*
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States / epidemiology