Quality Assurance - What do you report?

Question 1

What do you report?

FVC

Answer 1

FVC

You’d report the best FVC and FEV1, regardless of which test it came from.

You’d determine the “best test”, which is the test with the highest FVC + FEV1.

You need 3 acceptable tests (max of 8 tries) that are within 5% or 150ml of each other.

Question 2

What do you report?

SVC

Answer 2

SVC

You’d report the best SVC.

You need 2 acceptable efforts within 5% or 150ml of each other.

Question 3

What do you report?

MVV

Answer 3

MVV

You’d report the best MVV

You need at least 2 acceptable efforts within 10% of each other.

Question 4

What do you report?

Helium Dilution

Answer 4

Helium Dilution

You’d report the mean of the three largest acceptable FRC measurements.

Question 5

What do you report?

Nitrogen Washout

Answer 5

Nitrogen Washout

You report the mean of 2 acceptable results within 10% of each other.

Question 6

What do you report?

Body Plethysmography

Answer 6

Body Plethysmography

You report the mean of 3 acceptable results within 5% of each other.

Question 7

What do you report?

DLCO-SB

Answer 7

DLCO-SB

You report the mean of 2 acceptable maneuvers within 10% of each other.