A childhood asthma severity scale: Symptoms, medications, and health care visits

Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 405-413

  Ortega, Alexander N ^a   Belanger, Kathleen D ^a   Bracken, Michael B ^a   Leaderer, Brian P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CROMOGLYCATE DISODIUM; STEROID; THEOPHYLLINE;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; INSURANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0035058907     PISSN: 10811206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1081-1206(10)62486-6     Document Type: Article

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