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Asthma---time for a change of name? Commentary

Year: 1997

Type: article

Abstract: A term with no agreed meaning is as valueless as an experiment with no prior hypothesis.The former is non-communication, the latter is non-science, and the results of both are confusion.The two often coincide in the field of paediatric respiratory medicine, where it is now becoming accepted that the term 'asthma', without any qualification or definition, has begun to hinder rather than facilitate progress both in research into the management of wheezy children and in the epidemiological search for the causes of the increasing amount of lower respiratory illness in childhood.1-

Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood

DOI: 10.1136/adc.77.1.62

Authors: M. Silverman, N. Wilson;, N. SPEIGHT

Institutions: University of Leicester, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Royal Brompton Hospital

Language: English

Topic: Asthma and respiratory diseases

Subfield: Physiology

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2157032735