Strategies for tailoring asthma treatment in adults

摘要

To the Editor: The authors of the BASALT study1 concluded that their findings "provide reassurance that [symptom-based adjustment] SBA of inhaled corticosteroids dose may be appropriate in most patients widi mild to moderate asdima." They reached that conclusion because treatment failure rates for adult patients widi well or partially controlled asdima managed by either the physician assessment-based adjustment (PABA) method or the SBA method were similar. However, I hesitate to accept this conclusion for 2 reasons.