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Asthma: A Clinician's Guide incorporates the new National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's 2007 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3) and emphasizes the importance of asthma control that has come to the forefront of asthma management. This vital text discusses the current data on genetics and strategies to overcome treatment disparities. With concise, evidence-based information in an easily accessible format, this book provides respiratory and pulmonary medicine students with a fundamental resource to better understand asthma and manage appropriate treatment for various patient populations. Each chapter includes an outline, objectives, and key terms with definitions Appendices include travel charts and school plans Guideline-based step management algorithms provided for each age group Peak flow charts and instruction guides are included Forms/templates provided for reproduction This user-friendly text is an essential reference for students and clinicians alike!

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Margaret V. Clark has more than 30 years of experience as a medical writer, editor, and educator. Clark has specialized in writing for medical education, clinical practice guidelines, quality improvement initiatives, clinical research studies, and publication planning. She was a reviewer for the National Guidelines Clearinghouse and the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse on behalf of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). She has also written for Advance News Magazine, WebMD, and Reuters Health. Miss Clark was the Editorial Director for Medscape from WebMD for Pulmonary Medicine, Allergy and Immunology, Emergency Medicine, and Critical Care Medicine. She was the inaugural Pulmonary/Critical Care Editor of the peer-reviewed journal MedGenMed. Additionally, her textbook, Asthma: A Clinician’s Guide, has been translated into multiple languages and is used worldwide.Miss Clark was the Clinical Coordinator for Pulmonary Medicine and Respiratory Care at Boston Medical Center/Boston University Medical School and as the Special Studies Coordinator for the Georgia Medical Care Foundation, a Quality Improvement Organization for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She has served as an investigator for national and international trials and also written several other books and monographs.Miss Clark holds a Master of Science in International Health from Touro University. She is the 1996 recipient of the Bird Award given by the Bird Institute of Biomedical Technology for her extensive writing in Pulmonary Medicine and in 2010 she was awarded the D. Robert McCaffree, MD, Master FCCP Humanitarian Award given by the Chest Foundation–American College of Chest Physicians for her volunteer work with inner-city children.

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