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 ...

A new guideline has provided an updated definition of severe asthma along with new recommendations for treating the condition. Produced by a joint task force of the European Respiratory Society and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Asthma has long been associated with the use of inhalers to control symptoms. The new S2K guideline on the management of asthma, compiled by experts and published in March 2023, aims to change this.

The update includes new focus on monitoring asthma control as the goal for asthma therapy and distinguishing between classifying asthma severity and monitoring asthma control Emphasis is placed on ...

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 ...