More than 570,000 adults live with asthma in Portugal, and one in three patients with asthma is not diagnosed in the primary care clinical record, shows a study to be presented in Lisbon this Tuesday.
According to a study, the first in Portugal dedicated to asthma and which will be presented at the National Institute of Health Dutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), 70% of patients who did not have a registered diagnosis had not received treatment in the last 12 months, which shows “the need to take action to improve access to diagnosis and monitoring of the disease.”
“We have identified a significant group of people who are probably being followed (…) confidentially or elsewhere, and their diagnosis is not recorded by their treating doctors,” one of the coordinators, Jaime Correia de Souza, explained to Lusa. Epi-asthma study covering 38 primary health care units.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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