How to do a clinical trial? Recommendations from the aerobiological point of view

Allergy immunotherapy is still the only treatment of pollen allergy, providing a long-term effect. Clinical trials with pollen allergic patients are in need of validated, high quality pollen data and forecasts in order to grant comparability and to adhere to scientific standards. The aerobiological part of clinical trials remained hitherto not well defined, leaving the definition and use of pollen and forecast data more or less open