Asthma Key Indicators:

• History of recurrent wheezing episodes that respond to treatment
• History of any of the following:
  • cough, worse particularly at night
  • recurrent difficulty in breathing
  • recurrent chest tightness
• Direct observation in the clinic of acute wheezing that responds to bronchodilators
• Recurrent respiratory symptoms in a child at high risk for development of asthma (eg, positive asthma predictive index)