Monitoring asthma in childhood: symptoms, exacerbations and quality of life
Monitoring asthma in children in clinical practice is primarily performed by reviewing disease activity (daytime and night-time symptoms, use of reliever medication, exacerbations requiring frequent use of reliever medication and urgent visits to the healthcare professional) and the impact of the di...
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| author | Paul L.P. Brand Mika J. Mäkelä Stanley J. Szefler Thomas Frischer David Price |
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| description | Monitoring asthma in children in clinical practice is primarily performed by reviewing disease activity (daytime and night-time symptoms, use of reliever medication, exacerbations requiring frequent use of reliever medication and urgent visits to the healthcare professional) and the impact of the disease on children's daily activities, including sports and play, in a clinical interview. In such an interview, most task force members also discuss adherence to maintenance therapy and the patients' (and parents') views and beliefs on the goals of treatment and the amount of treatment required to achieve those goals. Composite asthma control and quality of life measures, although potentially useful in research, have limited value in clinical practice because they have a short recall window and do not cover the entire spectrum of asthma control. Telemonitoring of children with asthma cannot replace face-to-face follow-up and monitoring because there is no evidence that it is associated with improved health outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6a132b09f1ee4bbb9de26e654d09aa422022-12-22T01:10:13ZengEuropean Respiratory SocietyEuropean Respiratory Review0905-91801600-06172015-06-012413618719310.1183/16000617.0000361403614Monitoring asthma in childhood: symptoms, exacerbations and quality of lifePaul L.P. Brand0Mika J. Mäkelä1Stanley J. Szefler2Thomas Frischer3David Price4 Princess Amalia Children's Centre, Isala Hospital, Zwolle, The Netherlands Skin and Allergy Hospital, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland Children's Hospital Colorado and University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA Dept of Paediatrics and Paediatric Surgery, Wilhelminenspital, Vienna, Austria Dept of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, Academic Primary Care, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Monitoring asthma in children in clinical practice is primarily performed by reviewing disease activity (daytime and night-time symptoms, use of reliever medication, exacerbations requiring frequent use of reliever medication and urgent visits to the healthcare professional) and the impact of the disease on children's daily activities, including sports and play, in a clinical interview. In such an interview, most task force members also discuss adherence to maintenance therapy and the patients' (and parents') views and beliefs on the goals of treatment and the amount of treatment required to achieve those goals. Composite asthma control and quality of life measures, although potentially useful in research, have limited value in clinical practice because they have a short recall window and do not cover the entire spectrum of asthma control. Telemonitoring of children with asthma cannot replace face-to-face follow-up and monitoring because there is no evidence that it is associated with improved health outcomes.http://err.ersjournals.com/content/24/136/187.full |
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| title | Monitoring asthma in childhood: symptoms, exacerbations and quality of life |
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