Enhancing validity: What counts as an asthma attack?

Journal of Asthma

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 729-737

  Aroni, R ^a   Goeman, D ^b   Stewart, K ^c   Thien, F ^b   Sawyer, S ^d   Abramson, M ^e   Douglass, J ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma attack; Asthma diagnosis; Asthma severity; Qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA ATTACK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF CONTROL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; VICTORIA;

EID: 9144260855     PISSN: 02770903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/JAS-200027980     Document Type: Article

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