Open AccessCanadian Pediatric Asthma Consensus Guidelines, 2003 (updated to December 2004): Introduction
Author(s) -
Allan B. Becker,
Denis Bérubé,
Zave Chad,
Myrna Dolovich,
Francine M Ducharme,
Tony D’Urzo,
Pierre Ernst,
Alexander Ferguson,
Cathy Gillespie,
Sandeep Kapur,
Tom Kovesi,
Brian Lyttle,
Bruce Mazer,
Mark Montgomery,
Søren Pedersen,
Paul Pianosi,
Joseph Reisman,
Malcolm R. Sears,
Estelle Simons,
Sheldon Spier,
Robert Thivierge,
Wade Watson,
Barry J. Zimmerman
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
cmaj. canadian medical association journal
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.975
H-Index - 186
eISSN - 1488-2329
pISSN - 0820-3946
DOI - 10.1503/cmaj.045064
Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , family medicine , medline , expert opinion , alternative medicine , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , pathology , immunology , political science , law
Although guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the last 15 years, there has been little focus on issues relating to asthma in childhood. Since the last revision of the 1999 Canadian asthma consensus report, important new studies, particularly in children, have highlighted the need to incorporate this new information into asthma guidelines.