hopital2.jpgUn researcher at the Ottawa Hospital contends that a third of Canadians who have been diagnosed with asthma are not met.
Shawn Aaron, head of respiratory medicine at the Ottawa Hospital, and his staff come to this conclusion after a study of 496 people supposedly asthmatics.
The research focused on 242 people obese and 254 non-obese eight Canadian cities diagnosed by doctors as suffering from asthma. Of these patients, 31.8% in the obese group and 28.7% in the non-obese does not ultimately suffered from asthma, suggesting that there would be a wrong diagnosis of the disease in the country.
In some cases, patients suffering from other respiratory ailments, such as influenza. Dr. Aaron in this study supports that these errors are sometimes due to the fact that doctors do not have a spirometer or do not offer patients suspected of suffering from asthma to go pass this test.
The findings of this study are published in detail on the website of the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
The whole is accompanied by an editorial, also available on the Internet. It signed Alan Kaplan and Dr. Matthew B. Stanbrook, argues that "instead of simply surdiagnostiqué, asthma is misdiagnosed. They specify that almost half of patients with asthma diagnosed by a doctor have never undergone spirometry. "The misdiagnosis of asthma patients with persistent symptoms or repetitive has important implications which can be serious for both patients and the health system also say the two columnists. They recall that these findings do not mean that we underestimate the problem that asthma in Canada
Shawn Aaron, head of respiratory medicine at the Ottawa Hospital, and his staff come to this conclusion after a study of 496 people supposedly asthmatics.
The research focused on 242 people obese and 254 non-obese eight Canadian cities diagnosed by doctors as suffering from asthma. Of these patients, 31.8% in the obese group and 28.7% in the non-obese does not ultimately suffered from asthma, suggesting that there would be a wrong diagnosis of the disease in the country.
In some cases, patients suffering from other respiratory ailments, such as influenza. Dr. Aaron in this study supports that these errors are sometimes due to the fact that doctors do not have a spirometer or do not offer patients suspected of suffering from asthma to go pass this test.
The findings of this study are published in detail on the website of the Journal of the Canadian Medical Association.
The whole is accompanied by an editorial, also available on the Internet. It signed Alan Kaplan and Dr. Matthew B. Stanbrook, argues that "instead of simply surdiagnostiqué, asthma is misdiagnosed. They specify that almost half of patients with asthma diagnosed by a doctor have never undergone spirometry. "The misdiagnosis of asthma patients with persistent symptoms or repetitive has important implications which can be serious for both patients and the health system also say the two columnists. They recall that these findings do not mean that we underestimate the problem that asthma in Canada
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