, records and reports airway status via a remote computer to the healthcare team of the patient with asthma. This article … discusses the contribution of this electronic lung function monitoring system to a comprehensive programme of asthma care of 26 … patients with severe asthma (mean age 48.7 +- 17.9 years) followed for a total of 359 patient-months. The total number of …

), asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Methods: A modified Delphi technique, involving two panels of three … was seen for asthma, with poor agreement observed between sources of codes for CAD and CHF. Conclusion: It is suggested …

Asthma disease management (DM) programmes often focus on patients who are considered to be high resource users, such as … persistent asthma. These programmes often focus on a few patients who have acute needs, but may not identify the populations with … asthma management across the population diagnosed with the disease and establishes a partnership between the patient …

medicine today. This is particularly true for chronic, high cost diseases such as asthma. The goal of this asthma disease … adherence to components of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute guidelines for asthma would result in a reduction in … the occurrence of acute asthma events and a lower total cost of treatment. The study took place in the member population …

. Although asthma is a disease that increases the burden on health expenditure and has high cost requirements, there have been … few studies evaluating the views of asthma patients about their treatment. The aims of this study were to identify factors … affecting the satisfaction of asthma patients and to contribute to the sparse literature on this topic. Methods: The study …

As treatment for moderate to severe persistent asthma, inhaled corticosteroid drugs combined with long-acting beta …, improved adherence, and improved day-to-day asthma symptom control); however, there are also problems (e.g. risk of severe … asthma flares associated with long-acting beta-adrenoceptor agonist therapy, high price of combination inhalers, and limited …

Despite recent advances in the therapeutic management of asthma, the prevalence, morbidity and mortality of this … chronic disease continue to increase in most countries. The financial burden associated with asthma has received increasing … prescriptions. This has led to an increased demand for improved outpatient management of asthma, and patients are now monitoring …

Objectives: A pharmacy asthma care program in Australia, which included specific education on asthma and asthma …, assessed the impact of a community pharmacy asthma service on the severity of patients' asthma over 6 months. Data from this … transition probabilities for switching between classes of severity of asthma, the costs of asthma treatment and program delivery …

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disorder of the airways. The worldwide prevalence of asthma has increased in recent … decades. There is an approximately 20-fold variation (range 1.6% to 36.8%) in the prevalence of childhood asthma throughout … indirect costs of asthma, which include absence from school, lost productivity and premature death, are substantial. The goals …

[Asthma Control and Education Program (ACE)] on patient outcomes (clinical and functional) and on resource utilisation in … socio-economically disadvantaged (and largely Hispanic) individuals with asthma treated at Hartford Hospital. Design and … evaluation of disease management programmes requires outcomes data. The results of this study of an asthma disease management …