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 ...

The introduction of the Global Initiative for Asthma 2019 guidelines significantly improved treatment of children with mild asthma, according to one study. Increased registrars’ knowledge of the ...

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 ...

(Family Features) The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health recently updated national guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and management of asthma.

Few discrepancies exist between the disease management program "Asthma" and current clinical practice guidelines. However, guidelines are in part more detailed. On 22 January 2014 the German Institute ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Guidelines say patients with obesity and asthma should lose between 5% and 10% of their weight. Primary care ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . SAN ANTONIO — Most physicians appeared unaware of updates to asthma management guidelines more than 6 months ...

An international group of primary care asthma experts, as well as pulmonologists and allergists from Europe and the US, met to discuss asthma management focused on the primary care office. This paper ...

Guidelines realistically applicable in the primary care setting can be termed low-intensity. It is the goal of this guide to emphasize those low-intensity measures likely to have the greatest ...

Therapeutic strategies fall into 2 categories: intervention, defined as measures to stop acute symptoms, and maintenance, defined as measures to prevent symptoms from occurring. All patients require ...