Tracing uncontrolled asthma in family practice using a mailed asthma control questionnaire

L van den Nieuwenhof, T Schermer… - The Annals of Family …, 2008 - Annals Family Med
PURPOSE A substantial proportion of adult patients with asthma have inadequately
controlled symptoms despite the availability of effective treatment. The Asthma Control …

Can the Asthma Control Questionnaire be used to differentiate between patients with controlled and uncontrolled asthma symptoms? A pilot study

L Nieuwenhof, T Schermer, P Eysink, E Halet… - Family …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Background. A substantial number of adult patients with asthma are inadequately controlled
despite the availability of effective asthma treatment. Patients and physicians seem to …

Clinicians tend to overestimate improvements in asthma control: an unexpected observation

EF Juniper, A Chauhan, E Neville… - Primary Care …, 2004 - nature.com
Aim: The original purpose of this study was to determine the Minimal Important Difference for
the Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ) but an unexpected tendency of clinicians to …

Comparison between an online self-administered and an interviewer-administered version of the Asthma Control Questionnaire: a cross-sectional validation study

PJ Honkoop, RJB Loijmans, EH Termeer… - Primary Care …, 2013 - nature.com
Background: Online self-management programmes for asthma have recently become
available. International guidelines suggest that the Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ) can …

Assessment of asthma control in primary care

M Mintz, AW Gilsenan, CL Bui, R Ziemiecki… - … medical research and …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To determine the prevalence of uncontrolled asthma in patients who are visiting
their primary care provider for any reason. Research design and methods: This multisite …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying 'well-controlled'and 'not well-controlled'asthma using the Asthma Control Questionnaire

EF Juniper, J Bousquet, L Abetz, ED Bateman… - Respiratory …, 2006 - Elsevier
The 7-item Asthma Control Questionnaire (ACQ) has been validated to measure the goals of
asthma management as defined by international guidelines (minimisation of day-and night …

Asthma control and management in the community: indices in 1997 compared with indices in 2002.

RL Cowie, MF Underwood, DD Sin, HM Sharpe… - Canadian Family …, 2006 - cfp.ca
OBJECTIVE To determine whether there was any change in indices of asthma control in
population-based samples of patients with asthma between 1997 and 2002. DESIGN We …

Performance of a brief asthma control screening tool in community pharmacy: a cross-sectional and prospective longitudinal analysis

KS LeMay, CL Armour, HK Reddel - Primary Care Respiratory Journal, 2014 - nature.com
Background: Guidelines recommend basing asthma management on assessment of asthma
control. Validated control tools, while suitable for clinical research, may not be feasible for …

Suboptimal asthma control: prevalence, detection and consequences in general practice

KR Chapman, LP Boulet, RM Rea… - European Respiratory …, 2008 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Telephone surveys describing suboptimal asthma control may be biased by low response
rates. In order to obtain an unbiased assessment of asthma control and assess its impact in …

Asthma control in Canada: no improvement since we last looked in 1999

RA McIvor, LP Boulet, JM FitzGerald… - Canadian Family …, 2007 - cfp.ca
OBJECTIVE To determine whether asthma control in Canada had improved since the last
major survey in 1999 by exploring how well patients' asthma was controlled, how much they …