Background: The quality of care for asthma remains suboptimal. Compliance with guidelines
remains low, but improved adherence to guidelines may increase the quality of care. but. We …

Background The 2007 Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma provide
evidence-based recommendations to improve asthma care. Limited national-level data are …

Background and objectives: Although primary care clinicians provide> 60% of US asthma
care, no nationally representative study has examined variation in adherence among …

Objectives This study primarily determined the effect of an educational and system
intervention on residents' documentation of the severity classification of asthma …

Introduction: Despite available and effective tools for asthma self-assessment (Asthma
Control Test, ACT) and self-management (Asthma Action Plan, AAP), they are underutilized …

Background and objective In day-to-day practice, asthma treatment and self-management
often fall short of the objectives defined by clinical practice guidelines. The objective of this …

Purpose. There is a lack of information in the literature reflecting systems effects on
adherence to national asthma guidelines. The purpose of this pilot study is to provide a …

Objective To assess primary care adherence to 2007 US asthma guidelines. Patients and
Methods Patients with persistent asthma aged 5 to 65 years from 22 primary care …

The objective of this study was to examine the compliance with the National Asthma
Education Program (NAEP) guidelines among asthmatic members of eight health plans …

Asthma patients' knowledge and perceptions about asthma management regimens have
been shown to correlate with the quality of their asthma management and outcomes. This …