Conditions: Asthma
Keywords: Symbicort Turbuhaler Persistent Asthma
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 430
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The primary objective is to compare the efficacy of Symbicort Single inhaler Therapy with treatment according to conventional best practice in adult patients with persistent asthma.

Detailed description:
A secondary objective is to collect safety data for treatment wtih Symbicort Single inhaler Therapy in adult patients with persistent asthma.

Arms:
arm 1: Symbicort Single Inhaler Therapy ( Turbuhaler 160/4.5 microgram, 1 inhalation bid + as needed) arm 2: Conventional Best Practice for Treatment of Asthma

Interventions: intervention 1: Symbicort TBH - Turbuhaler intervention 2: beta-II-agonist, inhale steroid
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Symbicort Single Inhaler Therapy ( Turbuhaler 160/4.5 microgram, 1 inhalation bid + as needed) intervention 2: Salbulin inh. 200-400 dosage 100 microgram (mcg)/dosage Salbutamol Sustained Release(SR)capsule 4 mg/8 mg Salbutol tablet (tb) 2 mg Salbutol forte syrup 2 mg/5 ml Ventolin tb, syrup, intravenous(IV),5mgx10 ampule(amp) Ventolin inhaler (inh) 200 dosage, 100 mcg/dosage Ventolin nebul 2.5 mg Volmax tb 4 mg/8 mg Vent-o-sal inh 100 mcg/200 dosage Combivent inh 100 mcg/dosage Combivent neb 2.5 mg/dosage Bricanyl tb 2.5 mg Bricanyl durules ret tb 5 mg Bricanyl syrup 30mg Bricanyl inhaler 0.25 mg/dosage, 400 dosage Bricanyl turbuhaler 0.5 mg/dosage, 200dosage

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