Title |
Prescription of respiratory medication without an asthma diagnosis in children: a population based study
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, January 2008
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-8-16 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Mira GP Zuidgeest, Liset van Dijk, Henriette A Smit, Johannes C van der Wouden, Bert Brunekreef, Hubert GM Leufkens, Madelon Bracke |
Abstract |
In pre-school children a diagnosis of asthma is not easily made and only a minority of wheezing children will develop persistent atopic asthma. According to the general consensus a diagnosis of asthma becomes more certain with increasing age. Therefore the congruence between asthma medication use and doctor-diagnosed asthma is expected to increase with age. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between prescribing of asthma medication and doctor-diagnosed asthma in children age 0-17. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Germany | 1 | 2% |
Netherlands | 1 | 2% |
France | 1 | 2% |
India | 1 | 2% |
Belgium | 1 | 2% |
Unknown | 50 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Master | 11 | 20% |
Researcher | 10 | 18% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 15% |
Student > Postgraduate | 6 | 11% |
Student > Bachelor | 6 | 11% |
Other | 8 | 15% |
Unknown | 6 | 11% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 45% |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 4 | 7% |
Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 7% |
Immunology and Microbiology | 2 | 4% |
Environmental Science | 2 | 4% |
Other | 7 | 13% |
Unknown | 11 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
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#15,233,109
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#5,518
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#129,901
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#19
of 24 outputs
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