Editorial
doi: 10.1183/20734735.021118.
Never mind the biologics, just take the inhalers
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- DOI: 10.1183/20734735.021118
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Editorial
Never mind the biologics, just take the inhalers
Breathe (Sheff).
2018 Sep.
Abstract
"It is a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what." In paediatric asthma, patients don't take their treatments and doctors rarely ask the right questions. The end result is far too many child deaths. http://ow.ly/OaGK30kFtsD.
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