National asthma attack audit 1991-2. General Practitioners in Asthma Group.

How general practitioners manage acute asthma attacks.

BACKGROUND The management of asthma attacks by general practitioners in 1992/93 was compared with 1991/92 in relation to recommended guidelines. METHODS The findings from a postal survey of 299 UK general practitioners who managed 2332 patients with an asthma attack in 1992/93 were compared with those from 218 practitioners who managed 1805 attacks in 1991/92. Management by a subgroup of prac...

An audit of inhaler technique among asthma patients of 34 general practitioners.

Doctors from 34 practices participated in an audit study which examined inhaler technique in up to 20 of their patients. A new scoring system, applicable to all forms of device, was used. Although the majority of the 422 patients (63%) was using metered dose inhalers, a broad range of other devices was included; most frequently Rotahalers (15%) and spacer devices (9%). For analysis, technique s...

Asthma care in Darley Dale: general practitioner audit.

OBJECTIVE To complete a first audit cycle of asthma care in Darley Dale after starting an asthma clinic. DESIGN Pre-clinic (1989) and post-clinic (1990) analysis of medical records of patients with asthma. SETTING A group practice in Derbyshire. PATIENTS 161 pre-clinic, 238 post-clinic patients with asthma. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Term "asthma" in the patient's computerised problem list, ...

General overview of fungal allergic asthma

Asthma is a complicated disorder, whose prevalence has increased over the past few decades.Asthma is characterized by infiltration of inflammatory leukocytes along with enhancedproinflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Fungi are now far more widely being considered as thedominant extrinsic trigger for asthma. Fungi are linked to the severity of asthma in many ways. Somedifferences between studi...

National Trends in Asthma Visits and Asthma