Diagnosis and management of asthma in adolescents

Clinical Respiratory Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 69-76

  Towns, Susan Joy ^a,b   Van Asperen, Peter Paul ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^b University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Asthma; Diagnosis; Management; Psychosocial; Transition

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

ADOLESCENCE; ASTHMA; AWARENESS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COUGHING; DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RISK; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOCAL CORD DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68849088383     PISSN: 17526981     EISSN: 1752699X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-699X.2009.00130.x     Document Type: Review

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