Incarcerated patients (ICP) are more likely to exhibit inadequate patient effort in pulmonary function tests (PFT), when compared with unincarcerated controls, according to a new study. Considering that PFTs are effort-dependent and that there are multiple motivations for ICPs to intentionally perform poorly, researchers from Mount Vernon Hospital in New York, compared PFT scores of 156 ICPs with scores from matched unincarcerated patients. Results showed that 86. [click link for full article]
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