Respiratory Medicine 

TL;DR: The St George's Respiratory Questionnaire is a standardized self-completed questionnaire for measuring impaired health and perceived well-being in airways disease and the background and rationale for its development are discussed together with an analysis of its performance.

TL;DR: Knowing the cut-points on the ACQ will enhance practising clinicians ability to identify patients whose asthma requires additional treatment, enable investigators to enroll poorly controlled patients into studies and for both clinicians and investigators to evaluate whether treatment goals are being achieved.

TL;DR: These three shortened versions of the Asthma Control Questionnaire can be used in large clinical trials without loss of validity or change in interpretation.

TL;DR: Budesonide treatment was associated with a significant reduction in the number of annual hospital admissions due to acute severe asthma and there was a significant relationship between the duration of asthma at the start of budesonid and the annual increase in FEV1 during budesonide therapy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the prevalence of inhaler mishandling in a large population of experienced patients referring to chest clinics; to analyze the variables associated with misuse and the relationship between inhaler handling and health-care resources use and disease control.