Victoria E Forth, Juan Carlos Cardet, Ku-Lang Chang, Brianna Ericson, Laura P Hurley, Nancy E Maher, Elizabeth W Staton, Bonnie Telón Sosa, Elliot Israel
BACKGROUND: Clinician-patient miscommunication contributes to worse asthma outcomes. What patients call their asthma inhalers and its relationship with asthma morbidity are unknown. METHODS: Inhaler names were ascertained from Black and Latinx adults with moderate-severe asthma and categorized as "standard" if based on brand/generic name or inhaler type (i.e., controller vs. rescue) or "non-standard" for other terms (i.e., color, device type, e.g., "puffer," or unique names)...
July 19, 2023: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine: JABFM