SOM MINI CPD: Modernizing Spirometry in OH with Z Scores with Rebecca Burton
In this monthly Continuing Professional Development (CPD) episode of the SOM Podcast, host Steve Randall talks with Rebecca Burton, a qualified occupational health advisor with over 11 years of experience and a clinical trainer for Diagtech. The conversation centres around spirometry screening in occupational health settings and explores why traditional diagnostic criteria are increasingly being superseded by modern statistical approaches.
Rebecca details the fundamental shift from using a fixed percentage cut-off (such as 70% or 75% of predicted values) to implementing Z-scores for…
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