The Children's Anti-inflammatory Reliever (CARE) study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial of budesonide-formoterol as sole reliever therapy in children with mild asthma

Lee Hatter, Pepa Bruce, Mark Holliday, Augustus J. Anderson, Irene Braithwaite, Andrew Corin, Allie Eathorne, Arthur Grimes, Matire Harwood, Thomas Hills, Ciléin Kearns, Kyley Kerse, John Martindale, Barney Montgomery, Lynn Riggs, Davitt Sheahan, Nick Shortt, Katja Zazulia, Mark Weatherall, David McNamara, Catherine A. Byrnes, Andrew Bush, Stuart R. Dalziel, Richard Beasley

Source: ERJ Open Res, 7 (4) 00271-2021; 10.1183/23120541.00271-2021
Journal Issue: October
Disease area: Airway diseases, Paediatric lung diseases

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Lee Hatter, Pepa Bruce, Mark Holliday, Augustus J. Anderson, Irene Braithwaite, Andrew Corin, Allie Eathorne, Arthur Grimes, Matire Harwood, Thomas Hills, Ciléin Kearns, Kyley Kerse, John Martindale, Barney Montgomery, Lynn Riggs, Davitt Sheahan, Nick Shortt, Katja Zazulia, Mark Weatherall, David McNamara, Catherine A. Byrnes, Andrew Bush, Stuart R. Dalziel, Richard Beasley. The Children's Anti-inflammatory Reliever (CARE) study: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial of budesonide-formoterol as sole reliever therapy in children with mild asthma. ERJ Open Res, 7 (4) 00271-2021; 10.1183/23120541.00271-2021

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