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 ...

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 ...

MADRID — New recommendations for the treatment of asthma from the Global Initiative on Asthma (GINA) fundamentally break with years of clinical practice. "The primary recommendation we made is against ...

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 guidance, which includes 19 recommendations, was published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. It represents the first updates to federal comprehensive asthma management and treatment ...

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 ...

To examine real-world clinician adherence to these guidelines, as well as agreement and self-efficacy, researchers analyzed data from the 2012 National Asthma Survey of Physicians. Adherence to many ...

The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) played a pivotal role in making sure the patient voice is included in the latest federal asthma management guidelines. Washington D.C., Dec. 03, ...

This year’s top asthma and respiratory disorder story focused on the pushback from multiple advocacy groups following ...

A new guideline has provided an updated definition of severe asthma along with new recommendations for treating the condition. A new guideline has provided an updated definition of severe asthma along ...

Breathing easier without limiting activities is the goal of new government guidelines that urge more attention to asthma sufferers’ day-to-day symptoms, not just their severe attacks. Some 22 million ...