Best treatment guidelines for bronchial asthma

Asthma is a common disease worldwide with significant ethnic and regional variations. An increasing morbidity and mortality, as well as health care burden from asthma have been recognized lately. Several evidence based guidelines have been developed with an aim to standardize and improve the quality...

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Published in:Medical journal. Armed Forces India 2007-07, Vol.63 (3), p.264-268
Main Authors: Rai, SP, Patil, AP, Vardhan, V, Marwah, V, Pethe, M, Pandey, IM
Format: Article
Language:English
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Bronchial asthma
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Summary:Asthma is a common disease worldwide with significant ethnic and regional variations. An increasing morbidity and mortality, as well as health care burden from asthma have been recognized lately. Several evidence based guidelines have been developed with an aim to standardize and improve the quality of management. These guidelines seek to translate the advances in the understanding of pathogenesis of asthma and in the development of new agents and strategies into practical application at all levels of healthcare. These advocate an assessment of the patients to classify the severity of diseases followed by a step-wise approach to treatment. With the current management we hope to achieve minimum or nil day time and night time symptoms, prevent acute exacerbations and attain normal or near normal lung function, thus improving the overall quality of life.
ISSN:0377-1237
DOI:10.1016/S0377-1237(07)80151-1