Clinically meaningful changes in quantitative measures of asthma severity

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 327-334

  Karras, David J ^a   Sammon, Maura E ^a   Terregino, Carol A ^b   Lopez, Bernard L ^c   Griswold, Sharon K ^c   Arnold, Gerald K ^d  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Amer Coll Phys Amer Soc Int M   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Dyspnea; Emergency medicine; Perception; Visual analog scales

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0034070718     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb02231.x     Document Type: Article

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