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Thank you Dr. Hahn for your comments on our study of the Asthma APGAR. We agree that broader inclusion criteria would be appropriate in the next study and appreciate the support that was given for all pragmatic trials in primary care.
I respect Dr. Hahn's stated preference for the ACT, however, it is not clear that Dr. Hahn has ever had the opportunity to use the Asthma APGAR in practice or teaching. The fac...
Competing Interests: None declared. - You can't manage what you don't measure...Show More
Kudos to Yawn et al. for performing a practice-based trial of a brief systematic asthma assessment tool (Asthma APGAR). More such studies are needed to inform the management of asthma in primary care. Hopefully such studies will be even more pragmatic than this one, that used two notorious efficacy exclusions: age over 45 and co-existence of an element of fixed obstruction, neither of which is justified in a truly pragmati...
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