, reliability and responsiveness of a parent-child dyad approach to utility and HR-QOL assessment of paediatric asthma health states …. Abstract: Methods:Methods: The setting was specialist care in a hospital-based asthma clinic. Participants were 91 girls and … boys with asthma aged 8 to 17 years and 91 parents. The intervention employed was parent-child dyad administration of the …

agonists) as add-on therapy for patients whose asthma symptoms are not controlled on low-dose inhaled corticosteroids (ICS …-on therapy for patients whose asthma symptoms are not controlled on low-dose ICS. Abstract: Methods:Methods: An economic …. Patients aged 12-80 years with asthma insufficiently controlled with ICS (n - 361) were randomly assigned to add-on LTRAs (n …

-care setting - of leukotriene receptor antagonists (LTRAs) as an alternative to inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) for initial asthma … asthma controller therapy. Abstract: Methods:Methods: An economic evaluation was conducted alongside a 2-year, pragmatic …, randomized controlled trial set in 53 primary-care practices in the UK. Patients aged 12-80 years with asthma and symptoms …

Background and objective: In day-to-day practice, asthma treatment and self-management often fall short of the …-based asthma disease management program, using broad-based educational interventions, can have a favorable impact on physician and … impacts on pharmacotherapy and health status. Patients with asthma (n = 35 Main outcome measures and results: The percentage …

Background: Asthma is a chronic disease, the two main components of which are inflammation and bronchoconstriction …. Fluticasone propionate (FP) and salmeterol, a strategy that treats both main components of asthma, has been recently compared with …. Objective: To determine the relative cost effectiveness when persistent asthma is treated with FP/salmeterol 100/50mug twice …

Asthma is a growing health problem that affects 4.8 million children in the US alone. This paper considers empirical … studies from the past 20 years examining the relationship between psychosocial factors and asthma management and morbidity …, attitudes and skills pertaining to asthma management, can play an important role in asthma management, adherence and morbidity …

Background: Asthma is a major public health problem in developed countries. In Canada, the prevalence of asthma is … of asthma in Canada to be between $Can504 million and $Can648 million (1990 dollars). 61% of all asthma costs were direct … productivity loss and level of function related to severity of asthma symptoms, and briefly review the published data on the role …

outcomes management information in developing and implementing interventions to improve the quality of care in asthma. Study … design: Prospective study. Patients and methods: Adult patients with moderate or severe asthma enrolled in sixteen … emergency room visits, canceled activities per month because of asthma, asthma attacks per month, and work days lost in the past …

Patient adherence to self-management strategies is a major issue in asthma, as in other chronic diseases. Adherence … time. While asthma self-management strategies are undoubtedly effective, many patients make serious self-management errors … during an attack and do not put into practice the self-management knowledge they possess. In asthma, adverse social, economic …