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control and reality from in-depth questionnaires. Our group demonstrated that discordance in a group of self-identified asthmatics
attending a state fair in the late 1990s (3). Subsequent follow-up
surveys have continued to demonstrate this disconnect (10). In
this study, as noted with earlier ones, a much higher percentage
of patients felt they were “in control” by self-assessment than were
considered by using an 8-question template drawn from EPR-3.
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