North of England evidence based guidelines development project: summary version of evidence based guideline for the primary care management of asthma in adults

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North of England Asthma Guideline Development Group The aim of this guideline is to provide recommendations (evidence based when possible) to guide primary health care professionals in their management of adult patients with asthma. It is a summary version of the full guideline,1 to which reference should be made for clarification or further information. The development group assumes that health care professionals will use general medical knowledge and clinical judgment in applying the general principles and specific recommendations in this document to the management of individual patients. Recommendations may not be appropriate for use in all circumstances. Decisions to adopt any particular recommendation must be made by the practitioner in the light of available resources and circumstances presented by individual patients. Throughout this guideline categories of evidence (cited as I, II, and III) and the strength of recommendations (A, B, or C) are as described in the first article in the series.2