In this episode:

• Asthma needs to be diagnosed effectively. Need objective evidence for the presence of asthma and if it suggests it’s something there’s opportunity to escalate investigation to tertiary care
• Diagnosis of this disease and getting it right is important, it has many implications on treatment effects, needs for therapies and the problems if the diagnosis is incorrect
• Some tools can predict very well that a patient is going to benefit from these treatments, has ramifications on the directions for patients and need try to make these tests more accessible to primary care physician

Guest: Dr John Brannan, Respiratory Scientist

Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

Total time: 45 mins