Providing better asthma care: What is there left to do?

Thorax

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 813-817

  Neville, Ronald G ^a   Higgins, Bernard G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; MONTELUKAST; STEROID; ZAFIRLUKAST;

ASTHMA; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; EMERGENCY; MEDICAL PROFESSION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

ASTHMA; COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SPECIALISM;

EID: 0033190751     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.54.9.813     Document Type: Review

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