Personalised asthma action plans for adults with asthma
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منابع مشابه
Written asthma action plans.
T he first British guidelines for the management of asthma in adults published in 1990 clearly recommended self-management of asthma. The exact statement read: ‘‘As far as possible, patients should be trained to manage their own treatment rather than be required to consult their doctor before making changes’’. Similar advice has been repeated in subsequent revisions of the UK guidelines and in ...
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The costs and effectiveness of asthma action plans for children were evaluated in a cross-sectional economic analysis. Direct health care and indirect costs, nights with symptoms, and asthma attacks were measured in 879 Ontario children with asthma. From a societal perspective, the total annual costs of the asthma action plan and the control groups were CDN$6,948 and CDN$6,140 per patient, resp...
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OBJECTIVES To investigate the perspectives of patients with asthma on the use of an action plan and the implementation of this plan during an asthma attack that culminated in a visit to an emergency department. DESIGN Qualitative study. SETTING Tertiary teaching hospital, suburban hospital, and rural hospital. PARTICIPANTS 62 patients aged 18 to 69 years who presented to an emergency depa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd011859.pub2