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Dedicated Asthma Program Can Improve Treatment in Kids, Teens Compared to Routine Healthcare Visits
Lung Disease News Researchers from the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) reported that a groundbreaking primary care-based program for asthma patients, called Pediatric Preventive Asthma Care Program, could improve the identification of mistreated asthma among … |
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Lung Disease News |
Dedicated Asthma Program Can Improve Treatment in Kids, Teens at Routine Healthcare Visits
Lung Disease News Researchers from the Children's Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) reported that a groundbreaking primary care-based program for asthma patients, called Pediatric Preventive Asthma Care Program, could improve the identification of mistreated asthma among … |
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Kids' Asthma Severity Under-Recognized & Undertreated at Routine Healthcare Visits
Newswise (press release) Newswise — NEW YORK (June 14, 2016) – An innovative primary care-based asthma program improves identification of poorly controlled asthma among children and enhances treatment plans, compared to care provided during routine office visits, … |
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Economic Times |
Real Time Twitter analysis on Asthma attacks can help healthcare workers anticipate hospitalisations
Firstpost Keeping tabs on tweets may be an effective tool to help prepare for — and prevent — increases in asthma emergencies, say researchers, including one of Indian-origin. “We live in the era of Big Data,” said study co-author Sudha Ram, professor at The … Now, Twitter to prevent asthma-related emergencies |
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Medical care and treatment of allergic rhinitis. A population-based cohort study based on routine healthcare utilization data.
Allergy. 2016 Jan 8;
Authors: Schmitt J, Stadler E, Küster D, Wüstenberg EG
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health services research on medical care and treatment of allergic rhinitis (AR) is scarce.
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the prevalence, incidence, comorbidities, and treatment of AR in a realistic setting.
METHODS: A cohort of 1,811,094 German National Health Insurance beneficiaries in 2005 was followed until 2011. To avoid misclassification, the ICD-10-code for AR (J30) had to be documented at least twice to classify patients as having AR. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were used to describe the burden, comorbidities, and treatment of AR.
RESULTS: A total of 111,394 patients (6.2%) had prevalent AR in 2005/2006. In another 60,145 individuals (3.3%) AR was newly diagnosed in 2007 to 2011 (incident cases). Patients with prevalent AR were three times more likely to develop asthma compared to patients without AR (age and sex-adjusted risk ratio (RR) 3.04; 95% confidence interval (95%CI) 2.98 – 3.10). Newly diagnosed recurrent depressive disorder (RR 1.61; 95%CI 1.55 – 1.68), anxiety disorder (RR 1.52; 95%CI 1.48 – 1.56) and ADHD (RR 1.21; 95%CI 1.13 – 1.29) were also related to prevalent AR. Approximately 20% of children and 36% of adults with AR were exclusively treated by general practitioners. Allergy immunotherapy (AIT) was prescribed for 16.4% of AR patients. Subcutaneous immunotherapy was most frequently used (80% of AIT).
CONCLUSIONS: This study highlights the significant burden of AR. Despite the established benefits of AIT to treat AR and prevent asthma this study suggests significant undertreatment. Future research is necessary to develop and implement adequate measures to increase guideline adherence. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
PMID: 26749452 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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$6M to help kids cope with asthma
Healthcare IT News Researchers at UCLA and USC will employ a $6 million award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to develop technology to help children with asthma. The four-year grant is part of a national $144 million initiative called … Using Smart Devices and Wearables to Tackle Childhood Asthma |
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University of California |
Could Smart Devices Alert Children About Asthma Triggers?
Healthcare Informatics Researchers from UCLA and the University of Southern California are developing a technology platform designed to enable users' smartphones and smart watches to notify them of their unique triggers for asthma attacks. The four-year, $6 million grant … UCLA–USC team to develop tech to predict kids' asthma attacks |
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Lung Disease News |
Chicago-based Clinical Trial Exploring Coordinated Healthcare Interventions …
Lung Disease News In Chicago, the rates of asthma in children are remarkably high, and the condition has been found to have a high incidence among African-American children. The CHICAGO trial (Coordinated Healthcare Interventions for Childhood Asthma Gaps in … |
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Condition: Asthma
Interventions: Behavioral: CAPE; Behavioral: Home
Sponsors: University of Illinois at Chicago; Sinai Health System; Cook County Health & Hospitals System; Rush University Medical Center; Ann & Robert H Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; University of Chicago; Chicago Department of Public Health; Respiratory Health Association; Chicago Asthma Consortium; Illinois Institute of Technology; Illinois Emergency Department Asthma Surveillance Project; Patient Centered Outcome Research Institute
Not yet recruiting – verified December 2014
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Complex interventions reduce use of urgent healthcare in adults with asthma: Systematic review with meta-regression.
Respir Med. 2014 Nov 15;
Authors: Blakemore A, Dickens C, Anderson R, Tomenson B, Woodcock A, Guthrie E
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Asthma accounts for considerable healthcare expenditure, a large proportion of which is attributable to use of expensive urgent healthcare. This review examines the characteristics of complex interventions that reduce urgent healthcare use in adults with asthma.
METHOD: Electronic searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE, PSYCINFO, CINAHL, the British Nursing Library and the Cochrane library, from inception to January 2013 were conducted. Studies were eligible for inclusion if they: i) included adults with asthma ii) assessed the efficacy of a complex intervention using randomised controlled trial design, and iii) included a measure of urgent healthcare utilisation at follow-up. Data on participants recruited, methods, characteristics of complex interventions and the effects of the intervention on urgent healthcare use were extracted.
RESULTS: 33 independent studies were identified resulting in 39 comparisons altogether. Pooled effects indicated that interventions were associated with a reduction in urgent healthcare use (OR = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.67, 0.94). When study effects were grouped according to the components of the interventions used, significant effects were seen for interventions that included general education (OR = 0.77, 95% CI = 0.64, 0.91), skills training (OR = 0.64, 95% CI = 0.48, 0.86) and relapse prevention (OR = 0.75, 95% CI = 0.57, 0.98). In multivariate meta-regression analysis, only skills training remained significant.
CONCLUSIONS: Complex interventions reduced the use of urgent healthcare in adults with asthma by 21%. Those complex interventions including skills training, education and relapse prevention may be particularly effective in reducing the use of urgent healthcare in adults with asthma.
PMID: 25433953 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]
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