A more tractable question may be which children represent the most immediate concern among public health, medical, and nursing professionals. These data suggest that the NHANES/NHIS prevalence estimates may be high if used to answer this question. Considering the children for whom medications were ...
Pulmonary and Critical Care: Pulmonary means “pertaining to the lungs”. If someone has a lung disease that means they have pulmonary disease and that may be affect their ability to breathe well. A lung disease or pulmonary disease is often treats us by a pulmonologist including the treating ...
However, structural shared decision making in the outpatient setting appears to significantly improve adherence to asthma pharmacotherapy and clinical outcomes (e.g., asthma control and lung function) [33, 34]. More research in this area would be important. For example, regarding the question of ...
Lung and Asthma Informatio cAgency. British Lung Foundation. Dept. of Publi .Health Sciences, London 3. . Anderson HR, Esmail A, Hollowell J, et al rEpidemiologically based needs assessment: lowe ,respiratory disease. London: Department of Health .1994 .4. British Guidelines on Asthma ...
Work begun two or three decades ago demonstrated the inflammatory nature of asthma, emphasised the need for regular treatment, and introduced the goal of maintaining normal lung function. More recent work demonstrated the benefits of adding a long-acting inhaled beta-agonist to low-dose inhaled ...
as the preferred long-term control medication for individuals with persistent asthma. ICS work by reducing inflammation in the airways, thereby preventing asthma symptoms and exacerbations. They are considered the most effective medication for controlling asthma symptoms and improving lung function over ...
e-HealthHomecareRecent studies have shown that long-term monitoring of asthma severity can reduce asthma exacerbations, optimise drug therapy and decrease the cost of asthma management [National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, 1997]. The management of a chronic patient is a collective and ...
Although inhaled corticosteroids are the most effective and commonly used treatment for persistent asthma [4], some of the children may suffer from frequent and severe asthma attacks, causing deterioration of lung function [5], and thus increasing the psychological burden on both children and parents...
Elsewhere it has been argued that a better term would be 'asthma lung attacks',14,15 and that such an attack should prompt a focussed re-appraisal of all aspects of management. Unfortunately there is no evidence that this ever happened in the present study.2 So how have we got into the...
Perceptions of asthma control in the United Kingdom: a cross-sectional study comparing patient and healthcare professionals' perceptions of asthma control with validated ACT scores Perceptions of asthma control often vary between patients and physicians. This cross-sectional survey provided UK-specific da...