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Underutilization of controller and rescue medications among older adults with asthma requiring hospital care.


AUTHORS

Hartert TV , Togias A , Mellen BG , Mitchel EF , Snowden MS , Griffin MR , . Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 2000 6 ; 48(6). 651-7

ABSTRACT

Asthma causes serious morbidity in older people, but pharmacologic therapy in older people with asthma has never been studied, at least in part because of the difficulty of defining asthma in this population.


Asthma causes serious morbidity in older people, but pharmacologic therapy in older people with asthma has never been studied, at least in part because of the difficulty of defining asthma in this population.


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