Asthma: Diagnosis

Key points

• Asthma: diagnosis NICE released guidance on the management of asthma in 2017. These followed on quickly from the 2016 British Thoracic Society (BTS) guidelines.
• patients should be asked if their symptoms are better on days away from work/during holidays. If so, patients should be referred to a specialist as possible occupational asthma
• all patients should have spirometry with a bronchodilator reversibility (BDR) test
• all patients should have a FeNO test Patients 5-16 years
• all patients should have spirometry with a bronchodilator reversibility (BDR) test