[PDF] Top 20 Clinical Tools to Assess Asthma Control in Children

... and control can be assessed in terms of impairment (frequency and intensity of symptoms, variations in lung function, and limitations of daily activities) and future risk (likelihood of exacerbations, progressive ... See full document

... important clinical effects of staff asthma education on children’s health, but identified studies often were not designed or powered to measure or detect benefit for rare events such as mortality or ... See full document

... the clinical situ- ation and desired ...patient’s asthma control level, and hence can be an approximate surrogate for the environmental variables in the previous seven days as- suming they have a ... See full document

... Childhood-Asthma Control Test (cACT) was designed to be administered in primary and secondary care le- vels; it is cheap and easy to use and interpret [1] ...of control of asthma: ... See full document

... and children with asthma, has been inhaled corticosteroids ...for asthma in the 1950s, in an oral preparation, and was investigated, in a placebo-controlled RCT in children, which concluded ... See full document

... the Asthma APGAR is useful in more racially diverse ...must assess the impact of the Asthma APGAR on longer term patient ...the Asthma APGAR tools in primary care ...of asthma ... See full document

... 69 asthma group children had neuropsychi- atric comorbidities, with a prevalence rate of ...38 children in the control group had neuropsychiatric comorbidity, with a prevalence of ...the ... See full document

... Global Asthma Network Questionnaire are shown in Table ...daily asthma prophylaxis (Table ...9 control children who had no history of asthma (age, ... See full document

... in clinical studies. In a prospective open label clinical study in 40 children with mild-to-moderate asthma reducing ICS was successful in all children who had no eosinophils in induced ... See full document

... physician-diagnosed asthma (Table 2). Probable asthma, defined as at least one affirmative response to the Brief Pediatric Screen Plus,[19] was identified in ...of children without a formal ... See full document

... identify children with moderate to severe ...symptom control [10]. Children were classified as having moderate to severe asthma if their caregiver reported ANY of the following criteria: (a) ... See full document

... identified tools and selected studies to determine the distribution of the core domains and their subdomains in the development of a HL measurement tool to be used among asthma and COPD ...the tools, ... See full document

... an asthma review questionnaire among Greek-Cypriot asthmatic ...of asthma control and experience of asthma patients in terms of management of their symptoms are not generalizable to other ... See full document

... for asthma [19, 20, 28, 35, 36], presenting a major clinical and public health concern [29, ...Many children, including 37 % of the 32 million American children on Medicaid in 2013, miss ... See full document

... and control in children with asthma and highlight potential barriers that may need to be overcome for these concepts to be translated into routine primary ...current asthma-management ... See full document

... for children with chronic ...for children to safely experience the consequences of different self-management ...by clinical staff on educational ...as asthma in the inner ... See full document

... each clinical asthma trial was ...including asthma exacerbations and adverse events, were ...as asthma exacerbations all ad- verse events described as “worsening of asthma,” ... See full document

... 6). Children with asthma are exposed to a number of indirect health risk of which internalising behaviours seems to be of major concern more ...asthmatic children are more likely to have low score of ... See full document

... BRONCHIAL ASTHMA IN CHILDREN & ASSESSMENT OF SEVERITY OF ASTHMA AND ITS CORRELATION WITH SERUM IgE LEVELS” prepared by me at Government Mohan Kumaramangalam Medical College and ... See full document

... childhood asthma stratified by child gender and family history of al- lergic disorders and examined the modifiable effect of ex- clusive breastfeeding within the first 6 months of life on the association in ... See full document