Asthma in Asia: Physician perspectives on control, inhaler use and patient communications.
CONCLUSION: Physicians and patients have different views of 'well-controlled' asthma. While physicians informed patients about asthma and inhaler usage, they overestimated actual usage and patients' knowledge was sub-optimal. Physician-patient interactions can be augmented with understanding of patient attitudes, visual aids and ancillary support to perform physical demonstrations to improve treatment outcomes.
PMID: 27096388 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Asthma - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Asthma Source Type: research
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