Asthma can be misdiagnosed, which means that people with untreated asthma are at risk of an asthma attack, and people who do not have asthma receive unnecessary drugs. Following taking an initial ...
While the so-called eyeball test—getting that gut first impression—is valuable when attempting to gauge the frailty of a patient with valvular heart disease, objective metrics such as handgrip ...
The 2003 British Guideline on the Management of Asthma states that in adults ‘Objective tests should be used to try and confirm a diagnosis of asthma before long-term therapy is started”. The primary ...