An official American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society statement: asthma control and exacerbations: standardizing endpoints for clinical asthma trials …

HK Reddel, DR Taylor, ED Bateman… - American journal of …, 2009 - atsjournals.org
Background: The assessment of asthma control is pivotal to the evaluation of treatment
response in individuals and in clinical trials. Previously, asthma control, severity, and …

Long-acting muscarinic antagonists: a potential add-on therapy in the treatment of asthma?

WW Busse, R Dahl, C Jenkins… - European Respiratory …, 2016 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways that is a major global burden on
both individuals and healthcare systems. Despite guideline-directed treatment, a significant …

Identifying patients at risk for severe exacerbations of asthma: development and external validation of a multivariable prediction model

RJB Loymans, PJ Honkoop, EH Termeer… - Thorax, 2016 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Preventing exacerbations of asthma is a major goal in current guidelines. We
aimed to develop a prediction model enabling practitioners to identify patients at risk of …

Impact of anxiety and depression on disease control and quality of life in asthma patients

I Urrutia, U Aguirre, S Pascual, C Esteban… - Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction. Patients with asthma also tend to have anxiety and depression. These
comorbidities may affect asthma control and quality of life. The objective of this study was to …

Policy and system change and community coalitions: Outcomes from allies against asthma

NM Clark, L Lachance, LJ Doctor… - … Journal of Public …, 2010 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We assessed policy and system changes and health outcomes produced by the
Allies Against Asthma program, a 5-year collaborative effort by 7 community coalitions to …

Implementing asthma guidelines using practice facilitation and local learning collaboratives: a randomized controlled trial

JW Mold, C Fox, A Wisniewski… - The Annals of Family …, 2014 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE Guideline implementation in primary care has proven difficult. Although external
assistance through performance feedback, academic detailing, practice facilitation (PF), and …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunities for cystic fibrosis care teams to support treatment adherence

KA Riekert, MN Eakin, A Bilderback, AK Ridge… - Journal of Cystic …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The purpose of this study was to identify the extent to which pediatric and adult
cystic fibrosis (CF) care teams implement best practices in adherence assessment and …

The Pediatric Asthma Control and Communication Instrument asthma questionnaire: for use in diverse children of all ages

SO Okelo, MN Eakin, CM Patino, AP Teodoro… - Journal of allergy and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background National Institutes of Health asthma guidelines recommend questionnaires to
assess asthma control, but these questionnaires are not useable across the entire pediatric …

Asthma: time to confront some inconvenient truths

RJ Hancox, PN Le Souef, GP Anderson… - …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Despite major advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of asthma and
improvements in management, the accompanying benefits from public health initiatives and …

[HTML][HTML] Down-titration from high-dose combination therapy in asthma: removal of long-acting β2-agonist

HK Reddel, PG Gibson, MJ Peters, PAB Wark… - Respiratory …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Asthma guidelines recommend reducing inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) to
the minimum effective dose, but the timing of long-acting β2-agonist (LABA) withdrawal is …