Comparison of parent reported physician diagnosed asthma and general practitioner registration.
Marianne EijkemansMonique MommersCarel ThijsPublished in: The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma (2022)
Parent reported physician diagnosed asthma and GP recorded childhood asthma had only moderate agreement, and is possibly influenced by labeling early transient wheeze as asthma diagnosis. It is important that parent reported physician diagnosed asthma is combined with additional questions such as current asthma symptoms and asthma medication use, as used in ISAAC or MeDALL based current asthma, in order to obtain reliable information for epidemiological research.