Determinants of management errors in acute severe asthma
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Determinants of management errors in acute severe asthma.
BACKGROUND It is hypothesised that, despite recent initiatives to improve asthma self-management including asthma education, detailed investigation of the sequence of events culminating in hospital admission will lead to the identification of important management errors and thus the likelihood that the majority of severe asthma attacks are preventable by currently available strategies, and that...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.53.1.14