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 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 ...

The guidance, which includes 19 recommendations, was published in Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. It represents the first updates to federal comprehensive asthma management and treatment ...

(HealthDay News) — Adding practice facilitation (PF) to other strategies may improve adherence to asthma guidelines in the primary care setting, according to research published in the May/June issue ...

New Approaches for Monitoring Asthma Control, Expanded Recommendations for Children The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) today issued the first comprehensive update in a decade ...

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 ...

Philadelphia, Pa. — Children suffering from asthma are not following the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s (NHLBI) guidelines on home asthma management, say researchers from The Children’s ...

Some doctors say the 400-page guide will improve clinical practice. Aug. 29, 2007 — -- In a move to breathe new life into decade-old asthma guidelines, federal health officials with the National ...

Although national and international guidelines for the treatment of pediatric bronchiolitis have many similarities, less agreement is found in guidelines for the treatment of asthma in children, ...

The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) has just issued the first comprehensive update in a decade of clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. The ...

Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Vol. 71, No. 2 (February 2014), pp. 81-86 (6 pages) The quality of guidelines is often modest and highly variable. We searched the Medline database for ...