Weekly self-monitoring and treatment adjustment benefit patients with partly controlled and uncontrolled asthma: an analysis of the SMASHING study
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- 10 June 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Respiratory Research
- Vol. 11 (1) , 74
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1465-9921-11-74
Abstract
Internet-based self-management has shown to improve asthma control and asthma related quality of life, but the improvements were only marginally clinically relevant for the group as a whole. We hypothesized that self-management guided by weekly monitoring of asthma control tailors pharmacological therapy to individual needs and improves asthma control for patients with partly controlled or uncontrolled asthma.Keywords
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