TY  - JOUR
T1  - "Does your child have asthma?" the response might have a hidden agenda—reply
AU  - Roberts EM
Y1  - 2004/03/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.158.3.291-b
JO  - Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
SP  - 291
EP  - 291
VL  - 158
IS  - 3
N2  - 
I very much appreciate the comments of Dr Stuart, in particular because this is precisely the kind of dialogue I hope to encourage in the clinical community. For any chronic condition associated with a subjective constellation of symptoms and clinical findings (of which asthma is only one example), perceptions of prevalence and race and class disparities are embedded within the cultural, social, and economic experiences of both parents and clinicians. Our current epidemiological picture of asthma, which is based almost entirely on surveys of parental reports, is therefore confounded by these phenomena, which Dr Stuart points out.

SN  - 1072-4710
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.158.3.291-b
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.158.3.291-b
ER  -