Authors' response
- Department of Respiratory Medicine, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Correspondence to Dr Simone Hashimoto, Department of Respiratory Medicine, F5-260, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; s.hashimoto{at}amc.nl
- Accepted 28 July 2011
- Published Online First 23 August 2011
- Asthma
- paediatric asthma
- paediatric lung disease
- COPD mechanisms
- allergic lung disease
- asthma guidelines
- asthma mechanisms
- asthma pharmacology
- COPD exacerbations
- COPD pathology
- COPD pharmacology
- pulmonary eosinophilia
We thank Dr Konstantinou for his interesting letter1 in response to our paper on internet-based management of severe asthma.2 He raises a pertinent question about how pragmatic is a study in which the patients have to give their consent to participate? We agree that asking patients to sign for their participation takes the study a step away from …
