Management of asthma in Australian general practice: Care is still not in line with clinical practice guidelines

Primary Care Respiratory Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 100-105

  Barton, Christopher ^a   Proudfoot, Judith ^b   Amoroso, Cheryl ^b   Ramsay, Emmae ^a   Holton, Christine ^a   Bubner, Tanya ^a   Harris, Mark ^b   Beilby, Justin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Clinical practice; Physicians; Practice guidelines; Primary health care; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SPIROMETRY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; FAMILY PRACTICE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 66549088206     PISSN: 14714418     EISSN: 14751534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3132/pcrj.2008.00059     Document Type: Article

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