Stepping Down Asthma Treatment

It sounds like that conversation about stepping down treatment really needs to be flagged at the start, when we're stepping up treatment. So let's talk through some of the practical steps and timing around planning stepping down preventer medication. Who are these patients? Who are the well controlled group hat we want a target and how do we measure them? Can we talk through a bit more about the practical tools we can use in clinic to decide who's got good controlso one of the common tools that's used is the asthma control test, whichis available as a short, five item questioner. There's a link to that from the article in australian prescriber. What we're aiming for