Update on asthma management: making sense of the guidelines for adolescents with asthma and integrating them into clinical practice.
The goal of this review is three-fold: (1) to highlight the severity of childhood asthma and the need for improved asthma management in the United States, (2) to review the most recent evidence-based guidelines on asthma care as published in 2007 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Expert Panel, highlighting the changes and recommendations that have significant impact on adolescent populations, and finally (3) to propose a framework that clinicians can use to reliably implement these changes to help optimize asthma management and improve clinical outcomes for their patients.
Dritz
Michele C
MC
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Quality Scholar in Healthcare Transformation, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Mail Code-4000, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA. Michele.Dritz@cchmc.org
Britto
Maria T
MT
D000293:Adolescent; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D001993:Bronchodilator Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015897:Comorbidity; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index
D001993:Bronchodilator Agents