Defining and investigating difficult asthma: Developing quality indicators
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Defining and classifying clinical indicators for quality improvement.
OBJECTIVE This paper provides a brief review of definitions, characteristics, and categories of clinical indicators for quality improvement in health care. ANALYSIS Clinical indicators assess particular health structures, processes, and outcomes. They can be rate- or mean-based, providing a quantitative basis for quality improvement, or sentinel, identifying incidents of care that trigger fur...
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Most patients with asthma are easily diagnosed and respond to standard treatment with a short-acting inhaled β2agonist for symptom control and long-term treatment with an inhaled corticosteroid in doses of up to 2,000 μg daily. Approximately 5% of patients do not respond to this regime and require further investigation to establish the reasons for the lack of response. "Difficult asthma" may be...
متن کاملDifficult asthma.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Respiratory Medicine
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0954-6111
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2005.10.013