"Real-life"-data on asthma control using budesonide/formoterol for both maintenance and relief: The Swiss experience;"Real-life"-daten zur asthmakontrolle mit budesonid/formoterol als erhaltungs- und bedarfstherapie: Die erfahrung in der Schweiz

Praxis

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 1335-1342

  Steurer Stey, Claudia ^a   Courteheuse, C ^b,c   Taegtmeyer, A B ^d   Leuppi, J D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Praxis für Pneumologie   (Switzerland)

^c Abteilung fur Pneumologie   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Asthma control; Self management; SMART; Treatment

Indexed keywords

BUDESONIDE PLUS FORMOTEROL; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; BUDESONIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SWITZERLAND; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; INHALATIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; TIME;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; BUDESONIDE; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72049132600     PISSN: 16618157     EISSN: 16618165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/1661-8157.98.23.1335     Document Type: Article

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