Objective airway monitoring improves asthma control in the cold and flu season: a cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The goals of asthma care are reductions in risk and impairment, but achieving these goals requires collaborative work between patients and their clinicians. The purpose of this study was to improve inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) adherence and asthma control by cueing therapeutic communication between patients with asthma and their primary care clinicians.

Methods

We conducted a prospective, cluster-randomized, controlled effectiveness trial to assess the effect of providing visually standardized, interpreted peak flow graphs (CUE intervention) to patients and their clinicians on ICS adherence and asthma control. Asthma control outcomes were analyzed by season to account for seasonal variations in exacerbation frequency.

Results

Although mean log-transformed I

SUBMITTER: Janson SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2972622 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature