Confirmation of asthma in an era of overdiagnosis

VP Luks, KL Vandemheen… - European Respiratory …, 2010 - Eur Respiratory Soc
It was recently shown that 30% of adults with a physician diagnosis of asthma did not have
asthma when objectively assessed using a four-step algorithm involving serial spirometry …

Overdiagnosis of asthma in the community

J Lindensmith, D Morrison, C Deveau… - Canadian respiratory …, 2004 - hindawi.com
BACKGROUND: Overdiagnosis of asthma may be an emerging problem after years of
attention to the rising prevalence and reported underdiagnosis of the disease. OBJECTIVES …

Accuracy of a first diagnosis of asthma in primary health care

P Montnemery, L Hansson, J Lanke… - Family …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Background. In a postal questionnaire study, the prevalence of asthma in southern Sweden
has been found to be 5.5%. However, the register prevalence of asthma obtained from the …

[HTML][HTML] (Correcting) misdiagnoses of asthma: a cost effectiveness analysis

S Pakhale, A Sumner, D Coyle, K Vandemheen… - BMC pulmonary …, 2011 - Springer
Background The prevalence of physician-diagnosed-asthma has risen over the past three
decades and misdiagnosis of asthma is potentially common. Objective: to determine …

Diagnostic work-up in patients with possible asthma referred to a university hospital

V Backer, A Sverrild, CS Ulrik, U Bødtger… - European clinical …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The best strategy for diagnosing asthma remains unclear. Accordingly, the aim of
this study was to evaluate diagnostic strategies in individuals with possible asthma referred …

A comparison of the validity of different diagnostic tests in adults with asthma

CJ Hunter, CE Brightling, G Woltmann, AJ Wardlaw… - Chest, 2002 - Elsevier
Study objectives Diagnosing asthma is not always easy, and there are times when objective
tests can be helpful. The extent to which these tests alter the probability of asthma depends …

Addressing the misdiagnosis of asthma in adults: where does it go wrong?

J MacNeil, RH Loves, SD Aaron - Expert review of respiratory …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Asthma is diagnosed based on patients' respiratory symptoms of wheeze,
cough, chest tightness and/or dyspnea together with physiologic evidence of variable and …

Reevaluation of diagnosis in adults with physician-diagnosed asthma

SD Aaron, KL Vandemheen, JM FitzGerald, M Ainslie… - Jama, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Although asthma is a chronic disease, the expected rate of spontaneous
remissions of adult asthma and the stability of diagnosis are unknown. Objective To …

Making the diagnosis of asthma

MC McCormack, PL Enright - Respiratory care, 2008 - rc.rcjournal.com
Diagnostic tests can only increase or decrease the probability of the asthma diagnosis, so a
thorough history is very important. In patients with asthma-like symptoms, spirometric …

Over-and under-diagnosis in asthma

J Kavanagh, DJ Jackson, BD Kent - Breathe, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Asthma is extremely common with a prevalence of approximately 10% in Europe. It presents
with symptoms which have a broad differential diagnosis and examination can be entirely …