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 …

Concepts of asthma severity and control are important in the evaluation of patients and their
response to treatment but the terminology is not standardised and the terms are often used …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

PURPOSE Guideline implementation in primary care has proven difficult. Although external
assistance through performance feedback, academic detailing, practice facilitation (PF), and …

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 …

Background National Institutes of Health asthma guidelines recommend questionnaires to
assess asthma control, but these questionnaires are not useable across the entire pediatric …

Despite major advances in the understanding of the pathogenesis of asthma and
improvements in management, the accompanying benefits from public health initiatives and …