BACKGROUND: Current asthma guidelines recommend assessing the level of a patient's
asthma control. Consequently, there is increasing use of asthma control as an outcome …

Background Valid outcome measures are imperative to evaluate treatment response, yet the
suitability of existing end-points for severe asthma is unclear. This review aimed to identify …

Background: Health literacy has been associated with health disparities in many disease
outcomes, including children's asthma. Parents are responsible for most of children's …

Background The Asthma Impairment and Risk Questionnaire (AIRQ) is a 10-item, equally
weighted, yes/no control tool validated in patients with asthma aged 12 years and older …

Background Little is known about factors contributing to children's asthma control status and
health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The study objectives were to assess the relationship …

Background Asthma exacerbation risk increases with worsening asthma control. Prevailing
numerical control tools evaluate only current symptom impairment despite the importance of …

Background Effectiveness studies with biological therapies for asthma lack standardised
outcome measures. The COMSA (Core Outcome Measures sets for paediatric and adult …

Background Asthma control is often overestimated in routine practice, and despite advances
in the understanding of immunopathology and the availability of new precision therapies, the …

Background Recurrent assessment of asthma control is essential to evaluating disease
stability and intervention impacts. An assessment that can be administered between annual …

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