Volume 1, Number 1, December 2006

What do Patients Want from Asthma Therapy?
Jane Leyshon

More than half of people with asthma in the UK have inadequate symptom control, despite the range of effective therapies now available. Rather than blaming patients when they fail to take their medications as prescribed, we need to examine the way we conduct asthma consultations and ask whether we are failing to meet the needs of individual patients. How can we gain greater understanding about what people with asthma want from healthcare professionals and treatments, so we can achieve a more patient-centred approach to care?

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