Achieving asthma control in practice: Understanding the reasons for poor control
John Haughney, David Price, Alan Kaplan, Henry Chrystyn, Rob Horne, Nick May, Mandy Moffat, Jennifer Versnel, Eamonn R. Shanahan, Elizabeth V. Hillyer, Alf Tunsäter, Leif Bjermer
Respiratory Medicine - December 2008 (Vol. 102, Issue 12, Pages 1681-1693, DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2008.08.003)
Published online 24 September 2008 by Respiratory Medicine.

A set of PowerPoint slides and also short summaries in pdf format:
(PDF files for numbers B and 1-7 below are available in full colour (main link) and black and white, allowing for printing using less ink)

1. Powerpoint slides — Achieving asthma control in practice: Understanding the reasons for poor control
2. Achieving Asthma Control in Practice. Understanding the reasons for poor control: introduction.
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3. Reasons for poor asthma control: have we made the wrong diagnosis?  Alan Kaplan
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4. Reasons for poor asthma control: incorrect choice of inhaler, poor technique, Henry Chrystyn
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5. Reasons for poor asthma control: patients' beliefs and adherence, Rob Horne
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6. The difficulty in capturing (and therefore demonstrating) subjective benefit in clinical trials, Nick May
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7. Reasons for poor asthma control: individual variation in response to treatment, Leif Bjermer
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8. Reasons for poor asthma control: smoking, David Price
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9. Reasons for poor asthma control: comorbid rhinitis, David Price
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Can asthma control be improved by understanding the patients perspective?
A peer-reviewed article by IPCRG authors, Rob Horne, David Price, Jen Cleland, Rui Costa, Donna Covey, Kevin Gruffydd-Jones, John Haughney, Svein Hoegh Henrichsen, Alan Kaplan, Arnulf Langhammer, Anders Ostrem, Mike Thomas, Thys van der Molen, J Christian Virchow and Sian Williams.  BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2007, 7:8 (22 May 2007)
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