Volume 2, Number 4, September 2008

What’s New in the BTS/SIGN Asthma Guideline on Diagnosis?
Monica Fletcher

In the last issue, we highlighted some of the key changes in the new British Thoracic Society and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (BTS/SIGN) asthma guideline. Although this is a ‘live guideline’ and is updated annually on the two organisations’ websites, this is the first comprehensive rewrite since it was published in hard copy in 2003. Here, we fill out some of the detail on asthma diagnosis and discuss the changes that impact primary care.

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