Results from the first-ever global quantitative survey on unmet needs in asthma treatment, demonstrate significant discrepancies between physician and patient assessments of current asthma treatment on issues that may affect health outcomes, including medication side effects, patient education and physician-patient communication.
G. Walter Canonica MD, says, "Ongoing physician-patient communication is essential in treating chronic conditions such as asthma, and the GAPP Survey reveals there is much room to improve this dialogue in every country we studied. One place to start is in the area of side effects, where results demonstrate significant disconnections between physicians and patients
