Conundrums in childhood asthma severity, control, and health care use: Puerto Rico versus Rhode Island

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Esteban, Cynthia A ^a   Klein, Robert B ^a   McQuaid, Elizabeth L ^a   Fritz, Gregory K ^a   Seifer, Ronald ^a   Kopel, Sheryl J ^a   Santana, Jose Rodriguez ^c   Colon, Angel ^c   Alvarez, Maria ^c   Koinis Mitchell, Daphne ^a   Ortega, Alexander N ^d   Martinez Nieves, Brenda ^b   Canino, Glorisa ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; clinical guidelines; control; Dominican; Global Initiative for Asthma; health care use; Latino; Puerto Rican; Rhode Island; severity

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ALLERGY TEST; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; RATING SCALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SPIROMETRY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67849109787     PISSN: 00916749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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