Accuracy of Children in Reporting Asthma Control As Determined By c-ACT (Childhood-Asthma Control Test)
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Assessment of control of bronchial asthma in children using Childhood Asthma Control Test.
BACKGROUND The use of Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT) has been advised for monitoring asthma control by the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines. OBJECTIVE To validate the tool C-ACT for the assessment of control of asthma and to examine the correlation between C-ACT score and lung function assessed by forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1). METHODS This was a prospec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0091-6749
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.12.332