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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article describes how the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma can be used in the clinical setting to improve a patient’s ...

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 . Although national and international guidelines for the treatment of pediatric bronchiolitis have many ...

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 ...

To examine real-world clinician adherence to these guidelines, as well as agreement and self-efficacy, researchers analyzed data from the 2012 National Asthma Survey of Physicians. Adherence to many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...