Treatment patterns among adult patients with asthma: factors associated with overuse of inhaled beta-agonists and underuse of inhaled corticosteroids.

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Published in Arch Intern Med on January 04, 2000

Authors

G B Diette1, A W Wu, E A Skinner, L Markson, R D Clark, R C McDonald, J P Healy, M Huber, D M Steinwachs

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA. gdiette@welch.jhu.edu

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