MedPage Today November 13, 2023
— In a survey, 42% of PCPs said they were “not familiar” with biologic therapies for asthma
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Many primary care physicians (PCPs) remain unfamiliar with biologic therapy options for uncontrolled asthma, which impacted the rate at which they referred patients to an asthma specialist, a survey-based descriptive study showed.
Of the PCPs surveyed, 42% reported that they were not familiar with biologics, while 45% said they were somewhat familiar and 12% were very familiar, said Bijalben R. Patel, MD, of the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, during the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual meeting.
This lack of familiarity also extended to knowledge of lab testing requirements, with 82% of...
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