Adult Asthma Consensus Guidelines Update 2003

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dc.contributor.authorLemière, Catherine
dc.contributor.authorBai, Tony
dc.contributor.authorBalter, Meyer
dc.contributor.authorBayliff, Charles
dc.contributor.authorBecker, Allan
dc.contributor.authorBoulet, Louis-Philippe
dc.contributor.authorBowie, Dennis
dc.contributor.authorCartier, André
dc.contributor.authorCave, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorChapman, Kenneth
dc.contributor.authorCowie, Robert
dc.contributor.authorCoyle, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorCockcroft, Donald
dc.contributor.authorDucharme, Francine M
dc.contributor.authorErnst, Pierre
dc.contributor.authorFinlayson, Shelagh
dc.contributor.authorFitzGerald, J Mark
dc.contributor.authorHargreave, Frederick E
dc.contributor.authorHogg, Donna
dc.contributor.authorKaplan, Alan
dc.contributor.authorKim, Harold
dc.contributor.authorKelm, Cheryle
dc.contributor.authorO’Byrne, Paul
dc.contributor.authorSears, Malcolm
dc.contributor.authorMarkham, Andrea White
dc.contributor.authoron behalf of the Canadian Adult Consensus Group of the Canadian Thoracic Society,
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27T12:19:59Z
dc.date.available2018-09-27T12:19:59Z
dc.date.issued2004-01-01
dc.date.updated2018-09-27T12:19:59Z
dc.description.abstractBACKGROUND: Several sets of Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the past 15 years. Since the last revision of the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Report, important new studies have highlighted the need to incorporate new information into the asthma guidelines.OBJECTIVES: To review the literature on adult asthma management published between January 2000 and June 2003; to evaluate the influence of the new evidence on the recommendations made in the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Guidelines and its 2001 update; and to report new recommendations on adult asthma management.METHODS: Three specific topics for which new evidence affected the previous recommendations were selected for review: initial treatment of asthma, add-on therapies in the treatment of asthma and asthma education. The resultant reviews were discussed in June 2003 at a meeting under the auspices of the Canadian Thoracic Society, and recommendations for adult asthma management were reviewed.RESULTS: The present report emphasises the importance of the early introduction of inhaled corticosteroids in symptomatic patients with mild asthma; stresses the benefit of adding additional therapy, preferably long-acting beta2-agonists, to patients incompletely controlled on low doses of inhaled corticosteroids; and documents the essential role of asthma education.CONCLUSION: The present report generally supports many of the previous recommendations published in the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus Report and provides higher levels of evidence for a number of those recommendations.
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dc.identifier.citationCatherine Lemière, Tony Bai, Meyer Balter, et al., “Adult Asthma Consensus Guidelines Update 2003,” Canadian Respiratory Journal, vol. 11, no. Suppl A, pp. 9A-18A, 2004. doi:10.1155/2004/271362
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1155/2004/271362
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/108568
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/45200
dc.language.rfc3066en
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2004 Canadian Thoracic Society. This open-access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits reuse, distribution and reproduction of the article, provided that the original work is properly cited and the reuse is restricted to noncommercial purposes.
dc.titleAdult Asthma Consensus Guidelines Update 2003
dc.typeJournal Article
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