Compliance with inhaled asthma medication in preschool children.
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Compliance with inhaled asthma medication in preschool children.
BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown poor compliance with regular drug therapy in children and adults with asthma. In preschool children the parents supervise and are responsible for drug administration, but little is known of compliance in this group. In addition, there are few data on the patterns of drug use of inhaled prophylactic asthma therapy or of the relation between compliance and s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.50.12.1274