Asthma education: an essential component in asthma management
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Asthma education: an essential component in asthma management.
Despite recent developments in our understanding of what could be the optimal management of asthma and renewed efforts from guidelines developers to help clinicians integrate their recommendations into current care, asthma remains a major human and economic burden [1–3]. Asthma is a variable condition, which unfortunately often remains uncontrolled, resulting in frequent acute healthcare use an...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.01303-2015