title: [The use of the International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma (GINA) in clinical practice among family physicians].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the degree of knowledge of family physicians related to the International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment (GINA) of Asthmatic Patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  We invited the family physicians from some clinics of Mexico City. A questionnaire was applied to 50 doctors who accepted to participate in the study; they had a 46 year-old age average and a proportion 1:1 between genders. The analysis was carried out with the test r of Pearson.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The correlation between general knowledge of asthma and knowledge of GINA was r = 0.022; between the general knowledge of asthma and the specialty of family medicine was r = -0.117; and that among the knowledge on International Guides of Asthma and the specialty of family medicine was r = 0.33.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A scarce knowledge exists on the guides proposed by GINA.
authors.affiliation: Hospital de Cardiología, área de fisiología cardiopulmonar, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, IMSS.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Segura Méndez
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Villagrán Ramírez
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vázquez Nieto
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: del Rivero
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olvera
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Espínola Reyna
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Torres Salazar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Salas Ramírez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D002983:Clinical Competence; D005194:Family Practice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico; D008875:Middle Aged; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000523:psychology*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014504:Urban Health