Single maintenance and reliever therapy
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Single maintenance and reliever therapy.
Single maintenance and reliever therapy The paper by Chapman et al reviewing single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) in asthma is important in highlighting some of the inadequacies of existing research evaluating this treatment method. The authors also claim that SMART fails to achieve adequate asthma control as measured by GINA criteria and provide a table detailing seven studies and a...
متن کاملSingle maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma.
Around 5.2 million people in the UK are estimated to have asthma.1 Mortality and hospitalisation rates associated with the condition fell significantly in the last 20 years of the 20th century, but have not fallen further since then.2 In 2006, there were over 1,000 asthma deaths and around 78,000 hospital admissions due to asthma in the UK.2 One pharmacological strategy that has been developed ...
متن کامل( SMART ) of asthma Single maintenance and reliever therapy
We write to raise some of a number of serious concerns about the recent paper ‘Single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma: a critical appraisal’. We believe that it is written in a misleading fashion and contains important errors of fact, presentation and inference. Tabulated data for symptoms, reliever use and exacerbations are presented only for patients randomly assigned to SM...
متن کاملSingle maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma: a critical appraisal
The use of a combination inhaler containing budesonide and formoterol as both maintenance and quick relief therapy (SMART) has been recommended as an improved method of using inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting beta agonist (ICS/LABA) therapy. Published double-blind trials show that budesonide/formoterol therapy delivered in SMART fashion achieves better asthma outcomes than budesonide monothera...
متن کاملKwok Y Yan ( SMART ) of asthma Single maintenance and reliever therapy
We write to raise some of a number of serious concerns about the recent paper ‘Single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART) of asthma: a critical appraisal’. We believe that it is written in a misleading fashion and contains important errors of fact, presentation and inference. Tabulated data for symptoms, reliever use and exacerbations are presented only for patients randomly assigned to SM...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2010.150219