TY  - JOUR
T1  - STrategies for tailoring asthma treatment in adults—reply
AU  - Calhoun WJ, Boushey HA, Ameredes BT, Asthma Clinical Research Network BASALT Trial Investigators f
Y1  - 2013/01/09
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.73385
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 136
EP  - 137
VL  - 309
IS  - 2
N2  - 
Although the performance characteristics of sputum eosinophils is slightly better than that of exhaled nitric oxide, the penetrance of sputum eosinophil measurements into clinical practice in the United States and in most of the world has been negligible due to the difficulty of establishing reproducible and reliable sputum processing and cytological examination in the clinical setting. Someday sputum measures may be made reproducibly and technically simple enough to be performed routinely in the office setting, but the state of standard clinical technology is not there yet.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.73385
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.73385
ER  -