Underdiagnosis of childhood asthma: A comparison of survey estimates to clinical evaluation

Objectives: Diagnostic patterns play a role in asthma prevalence estimates and could have implications for disease management. We sought to determine the extent to which questionnaire-derived estimates of childhood asthma reflect the disease's true occurrence. Materials and Methods: Children ag...

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Main Authors: Grzegorz Marek Brożek, Małgorzata Farnik, Joshua Lawson, Jan Eugeniusz Zejda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine 2013-12-01
Series:International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
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Online Access:http://ijomeh.eu/Underdiagnosis-of-childhood-asthma-a-comparison-of-survey-estimates-to-clinical-evaluation,2138,0,2.html