RESULTS
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS
The study included patients from 24 large hospitals
(200 beds or more), 16 small hospitals (fewer than
200 beds), and 56 clinics (no beds). A total of 4,662
questionnaires were prepared, and 2,762 responses
were received (response rate: 59.2%). The rate of
PEFM use in this study was 23.7%, and we analyzed
data from the 419 patients with asthma who answered
the questionnaire and completed the 5 questions
from the ACT-J questionnaire and whose asthma control
could be classified according to the GINA criteria
(Table 1). The patients’ characteristics, including the
number of cases, age, sex, duration of disease,type of