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Allergy & Asthma Clinic of West Texas Holding Camp for Kids With Asthma
EverythingLubbock.com "What we do is provide a safe summer experience for these children who have asthma and how to build their self esteem, and how to handle their medications, and if they have an asthma attack what to do, and they can even educate their parents which is a … Community Briefs |
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Asthma & Allergy Clinic Of West Texas To Host Asthma Health Camp For Kids …
News/Talk 790 KFYO On Tuesday's edition of Lubbock's First News, Georgeanna Welch from the Asthma and Allergy Clinic of West Texas talked with Tom Collins and Laura Mac about an upcoming camp designed for kids with asthma. Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or … |
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Clinic to study low asthma, allergy rates in farm children
Marshfield News-Herald The Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation National Farm Medicine Center has partnered with researchers from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health to study why children who grow up on farms are less likely to develop asthma … |
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El Centro Outpatient Clinic observes World Asthma Day 2013
Imperial Valley Press Angel Martinez, 9, of El Centro takes a deep breath to see how to use the medication for her asthma. Aide Fulton, Imperial Valley Child Asthma Program director, showed children how to use their medication at the World Asthma Day event on Tuesday. (. |
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Mayo Clinic Health System in New Prague offers free asthma screenings
Southernminn.com Mayo Clinic Health System in New Prague is offering free walk-in asthma screenings from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 16 at the medical center, 301 Second St. NE. The 15-minute screening program includes a lung function test and consultation with an … |
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Non-attendance at a difficult-asthma clinic
Nursing Times Increasing demand for our weekly difficult-asthma clinic means routine appointments are at a premium. This led us to explore the reasons why patients failed to attend for appointments and whether contacting them by telephone within a week of their … |
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Is Clinical Judgment of Asthma Control Adequate?: A prospective survey in a tertiary hospital pulmonary clinic.
Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J. 2013 Feb;13(1):63-8
Authors: Baddar S, Jayakrishnan B, Al-Rawas O, George J, Al-Zeedy K
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Asthma control is often difficult to measure. The aim of this study was to compare physicians’ personal clinical assessments of asthma control with the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) scoring.
METHODS: Physicians in the adult pulmonary clinics of a tertiary hospital in Oman first documented their subjective judgment of asthma control on 157 consecutive patients. Immediately after that and in the same proforma, they selected the individual components from the GINA asthma control table as applicable to each patient.
RESULTS: The same classification of asthma control was achieved by physicians’ clinical judgment and GINA classification in 106 cases (67.5%). In the other 32.5% (n = 51), the degree of control by clinical judgment was one level higher than the GINA classification. The agreement was higher for the pulmonologists (72%) as compared to non-pulmonologists (47%; P = 0.009). Physicians classified 76 patients (48.4%) as well-controlled by clinical judgment compared to 48 (30.6%) using GINA criteria (P <0.001). Conversely, they classified 34 patients (21.7%) as uncontrolled as compared to 57 (36.3%) by GINA criteria (P <0.001). In the 28 patients who were clinically judged as well-controlled but, by GINA criteria, were only partially controlled, low peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) (46.7%) and limitation of activity (21.4%) were the most frequent parameters for downgrading the level of control.
CONCLUSION: Using clinical judgment, physicians overestimated the level of asthma control and underestimated the uncontrolled disease. Since management decisions are based on the perceived level of control, this could potentially lead to under-treatment and therefore sub-optimal asthma control.
PMID: 23573384 [PubMed – in process]
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Mobile Clinic Combats High Asthma Rates In East Bay Neighborhoods
CBS Local OAKLAND (KCBS) – An innovative mobile clinic is getting plenty of use as asthma and other respiratory issues plague certain East Bay communities at a disproportionate rate. According to a recently published report in the Oakland Tribune, children in … |
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Health Briefs: Destination Wellness programs include foot clinic
Tribune-Review Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare Solutions Seminar will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday. Learn how to find the right plan, compare the features of HMO, PPO, and Part D plans, save money and make sure you have prescription drug coverage. A sales … |
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Dynavax Advances Agonist For Asthma Into The Clinic
Seeking Alpha Dynavax Technologies Corporation (DVAX) announced this morning it will advance its proprietary second-generation TLR-9 agonist for asthma into Phase 1 clinical studies. The work will be performed under the terms of a collaboration with AstraZeneca … Dynavax to Initiate Phase 1 Studies for TLR-9 Agonist for Asthma |
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