ASTHMA PEAK FLOW DIARY IMPROVES CAREdoi:10.1016/S1081-1206(10)63469-2Thomas F PlautAnnals of Allergy, Asthma & ImmunologyT.F. Plaut. Asthma Peak Flow Diary Improves Care. Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunol- ogy, 76:476-478, 1996....
An alternative method is to instruct the patient to record peak expiratory flow (PEF) each morning and evening over a 2-week period in a diary or using an electronic peak flow meter. PEF should be measured three times on each occasion, and only the highest reading used. Diurnal PEF ...
They were asked to halve their usual inhaled steroid dose and long-acting bronchodilator, to discontinue their antileukotriene medication, and to keep a daily symptom diary and record daily peak flow rates using a peak flow meter. They were permitted to use short-acting bronchodilators on an as...
Almost 5 million children in the United States have asthma, 1 and it is the most common reason for admission to pediatric hospitals. 2 Each year, asthma results in 10 million school absences, 2 5500 deaths,
Guendelman SMeade KBenson MChen YQSamuels S Improving asthma outcomes and self-management behaviors of inner-city children: a randomized trial of the Health Buddy interactive device and an asthma diary. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2002;156 (2) 114- 120ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 44. Kris...
Negative binomial regression models were used to evaluate differences in the rate of episodes of poor asthma control30; participants without diary card data were excluded from these analyses. We planned to evaluate the treatment effect in subgroups defined by pH probe test results; a differential ...
32,37 Interestingly, an association between better adherence and changes in asthma quality of life and peak expiratory flow was only found when adherence was operationalised as both time of use and inhalation technique, and not for time of use only.32 These developments illustrate that some of ...
See separate leaflets called Asthma - Peak Flow Meter and Asthma - Peak Flow Diary for more details. Other tests If the diagnosis remains in doubt then a specialist may perform further, more complex tests. But these are not needed in most cases. What are the treatments for asthma? For ...
Basic functionalities of the FindAir application: + Asthma diary filled-in with single clicks (drug intake, peak flow, symptoms, notes) + View the status of all your rescue and regular drugs in one place + Information on possible triggers your asthma attacks ...
(25). In contrast to patients with nocturnal asthma, our population consisted of patients with stable asthma, who had neither a 5-d mean peak flow variability Ͼ15% before admission nor reported nocturnal complaints in the diary. Thus it is unlikely that our findings are based on the ...