Early referral avoids long-term oral steroids in asthma

Dr Aajuli Shukla

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Dr Aajuli Shukla

General Practitioner; Deputy Medical Editor, Medical Journal of Australia; Member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the Diabetes Management Journal

Dr Aajuli Shukla

 
Many more asthma sufferers stand to benefit from biologics but have not yet been put into the right referral pathways.

The issue isn’t around medication hesitancy, but more a gap of knowledge regarding the general awareness of the availability of this medication and the recognition of patients who might benefit from its use, says Dr Greg Katsoulotos.

This is an area that respiratory physicians themselves struggle with, he says.
 

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