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Published at www.nejm.org June 20, 2007 (10.1056/NEJMclde078123)

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In mid-May, we introduced Clinical Decisions — a new interactive feature designed to help us understand how our readers would manage a given clinical case. Our opening case¹ involved how to tailor the care of a 30-year-old woman with mild persistent asthma who, although only intermittently symptomatic while receiving treatment with inhaled beclomethasone at a dose of 160 µg twice a day, desired to cut back her treatment.

Among the three options offered to you, the most popular — receiving 2281 votes (37.5% of the 6085 votes cast) — was to switch the patient's treatment to a corticosteroid and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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