Lower physician estimate of underlying asthma severity leads to undertreatment

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 231-236

  Wolfenden, Linda L ^a   Diette, Gregory B ^a,b   Krishnan, Jerry A ^a   Skinner, Elizabeth A ^b   Steinwachs, Donald M ^b   Wu, Albert W ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FLOWMETER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; ASTHMA; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 0037467753     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.163.2.231     Document Type: Article

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