Are we too ready to diagnose asthma in children?

Thorax

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 625-628

  Keeley, Duncan J ^a   Silverman, Michael ^b  

^a Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BECLOMETASONE; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; STEROID; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANAMNESIS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INFANT; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY SOUND; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFANT; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS;

EID: 0033020766     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.54.7.625     Document Type: Review

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