Open AccessQuality of pediatricians' knowledge and outpatient diagnosis of childhood asthma
Author(s) -
V. V. Meshcheryakov,
E. Yu. Marenko,
A. G. Marenko
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pulʹmonologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 2541-9617
pISSN - 0869-0189
DOI - 10.18093/0869-0189-2007-0-4-41-45
Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , outpatient clinic , disease , pediatrics , family medicine , primary care , physical therapy
This article has analyzed a relationship between quality of theoretical knowledge of pediatricians at outpatient clinics and asthma diagnosis. Questionnaires revealed insufficient theoretical knowledge on current therapeutic and diagnostic approaches for asthma which depended on length of time after last postgraduate education course. The late diagnosis of asthma in childhood outpatient clinics was made in 95.7 %. A mean delay in diagnosis was 4 years and the more the knowledge was worse. The late diagnosis of asthma was proven to be related to more severe course of the disease and wider sensitization spectrum. The more informative and available in primary care predictors of asthma onset were defined. A diagnostic table has been created which contains the most informative criteria of asthma and allows a quantitative prognosis of the disease in children with recurrent respiratory syndrome.