Excessive Use of Quickrelief Inhalers Percentage of Asthma Patients Using an Inhaler for Quick Relie

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Excessive Use of Quick-relief InhalersPercentage
of Asthma Patients Using an Inhaler for Quick
Relief at Least Once a Day by NIH Severity Index
73
56
53
33
25
Base Patients who used an inhaler for
prescription medicine (unweighted N1294)
Reference National Asthma Education and
Prevention Program. Expert Panel Report 2
Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of
Asthma. Bethesda, Md National Heart, Lung, and
Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health
April 1997. NIH publication 97-4051.