A new guideline from the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology provides evidence-based recommendations for stepping down asthma medications for patients who have achieved sustained ...

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 ...

The British guideline on the management of asthma produced by the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) describes five steps for the management of ...

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 ...

Like impairment evaluation and risk assessment, the Guidelines offer recommendations for asthma management in three age ranges: children aged 0-4 years, children aged 5-11 years, and youths older than ...

A cohort with uncontrolled asthma, defined as impairment or risk in a 1-year consecutive period, was identified using electronic medical records among continuously enrolled patients with asthma aged ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (January 25, 2019) - When asthma symptoms improve, there's reason for celebration by both allergist and patient. But once symptoms are better, how do health care practitioners go ...

Peter L. Salgo, MD: What about the GINA [Global Initiative for Asthma] guidelines, the NHLBI [National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute] guidelines? Linda S. Cox, MD, FAAAAI, FACAAI, FACP: One class ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Time constraints may prevent providers from evaluating asthma severity or control. Providers initiated guideline ...

The Pediatric Asthma Yardstick, a new guideline from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), offers a user-friendly 'operational document'. It helps health care professionals ...

Lemanske RF, Mauger DT, Sorkness CA, et al, for the Childhood Asthma Research and Education (CARE) Network of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This study evaluated whether any of 3 ...