Table of contents

  • Preliminary material
    • Title and verso pages
    • Contents
    • Acknowledgments
    • Summary
      • Why refine the list of asthma indicators?
      • Methods used to refine the list of asthma indicators
      • Refined list of core asthma indicators
  • Body section
    1. Introduction 
      • 1.1 Purpose
      • 1.2 Background
        • Delphi surveys
        • Correlation analysis
      • 1.3 Aim and objectives
        • Specific objectives of the Delphi survey
        • Specific objectives of the correlation analysis
    2. Methods 
      • 2.1 Delphi survey
      • 2.2 Correlation analysis
    3. Results
      • 3.1 Delphi survey
        • Respondents
        • Question 1: Rating of asthma indicators
        • Question 2: Ranking of asthma indicators for retention
        • Question 3: Listing of potential asthma indicators for exclusion
        • Question 4: Suggestions for additional asthma indicators
      • 3.2 Correlation analysis
        • Whole population analysis
        • Subpopulation analysis
    4. Discussion
    5. Conclusions 
  • End matter
    • Appendixes
      • Appendix 1: The Delphi survey initial questionnaire 
      • Appendix 2: Sample of results and feedback from round one circulated to respondents in round two of the Delphi survey 
    • Abbreviations 
    • References
    • List of tables and figures