Patient factors that physicians use to assign asthma treatment

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1360-1366

  Diette, Gregory B ^a,b   Patino, Cecilia M ^a   Merriman, Barry ^b   Paulin, Laura ^c   Riekert, Kristin ^a   Okelo, Sande ^a   Thompson, Kathy ^a   Krishnan, Jerry A ^a,b   Quartey, Ruth ^d   Perez Williams, Deanna ^d   Rand, Cynthia ^a  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUTICASONE; SALBUTAMOL;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIGNETTE;

ADULT; ASTHMA; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE (SPECIALTY);

EID: 34447343107     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.13.1360     Document Type: Article

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