Telephone consultation could be an efficient way of reviewing patients with symptomatic asthma, say the authors of a new trial. But a consultant respiratory pharmacist has questioned how patient-focused such an intervention is. The authors of the study compared the acceptability and effectiveness of telephone review and face-to-face consultation with the asthma nurse in four general practices in England. The trial involved 278 adults who had not been reviewed in the previous 11 months.
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