Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2004)

Adult Asthma Consensus Guidelines Update 2003

  • Catherine Lemière,
  • Tony Bai,
  • Meyer Balter,
  • Charles Bayliff,
  • Allan Becker,
  • Louis-Philippe Boulet,
  • Dennis Bowie,
  • André Cartier,
  • Andrew Cave,
  • Kenneth Chapman,
  • Robert Cowie,
  • Stephen Coyle,
  • Donald Cockcroft,
  • Francine M Ducharme,
  • Pierre Ernst,
  • Shelagh Finlayson,
  • J Mark FitzGerald,
  • Frederick E Hargreave,
  • Donna Hogg,
  • Alan Kaplan,
  • Harold Kim,
  • Cheryle Kelm,
  • Paul O’Byrne,
  • Malcolm Sears,
  • Andrea White Markham,
  • on behalf of the Canadian Adult Consensus Group of the Canadian Thoracic Society

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2004/271362
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. Suppl A
pp. 9A – 18A

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Several sets of Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the past 15 years. Since the last revision of the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Report, important new studies have highlighted the need to incorporate new information into the asthma guidelines.