Changes in recommendations for the use of inhaled corticosteroids are likely to have the biggest overall impact on clinical practice. For patients with severe asthma, triple therapy is now the ...

New Approaches for Monitoring Asthma Control, Expanded Recommendations for Children The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) today issued the first comprehensive update in a decade ...

The use of clinical guidelines for the management of asthma can help improve patient outcomes and control costs. This article explores ways that managed care organizations can encourage physicians to ...

To evaluate whether the Asthma Control Test™ (ACT) score is predictive of Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guideline-defined classification levels of asthma control. The ACT is a validated, 5-item, ...

Representing a major revision, the rules say you should take into account both underlying disease and responsiveness to treatment. Since 1993, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has issued ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “Asthma care in the Netherlands is divided between different health care providers, including respiratory ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Significantly fewer pediatric patients with low- vs. high-risk intermittent asthma had an ED visit and inhaled ...

A new guideline from the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI), offers an "operation manual" for stepping down asthma therapy. It is said to help clinicians understand when ...

The Guidelines define asthma control as “the degree to which the manifestations of asthma (symptoms, functional impairments, and risks of untoward events) are minimized and the goals of therapy are ...

Recent guidelines have renewed the focus on treating severe asthma. During 2 panels at CHEST 2020, experts discussed key updates, limitations of the guidelines, and more. Recent updates to the Global ...

The Ghana Thoracic Society (GTS) has unveiled the National Asthma Guidelines, to provide a uniform approach to asthma diagnosis and guide disease treatment and management in Ghana for better patient ...