Asthma
About this PSP
At a Medicine and Me meeting on Asthma at the Royal Society of Medicine in August 2004, Professor Sir Stephen Holgate and Philippa Major (then Assistant Research Director of Asthma UK) expressed enthusiasm to Dr John Scadding (co-convener of the James Lind Alliance) about establishing a James Lind Alliance (JLA) Working Partnership in Asthma.
Plans were drawn up to populate the UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (UK DUETs) with asthma treatment uncertainties, and then develop methods for prioritising these uncertainties into a shortlist of 20 – 30. The final step would be a workshop at which members of Asthma UK and the British Thoracic Society would agree their top ten shared priorities from the short list.
See news from this PSP: December 2017
The Asthma PSP Top 10 was published in March 2007.
Articles and publications
Impact after the Top 10
Key documents
Top 10 priorities
- a) What are the adverse effects associated with long term use of short and long actingbronchodilators; inhaled and oral steroids; and combination and additive therapies in adults? (N.B this includes children aged 12 years old and over)?
b) What are the adverse effects associated with long term use of short and long acting bronchodilators; inhaled and oral steroids; and combination and additive therapies in children? - What is the most effective way of managing asthma with other health problems?
- What are the key components of successful "Self Management" for a person with asthma?
- What is the most effective strategy to educate people with asthma and health professionals about managing the adverse effects of drug therapies?
- What is the most effective way of managing asthma triggers?
- What is the role of complementary therapies in asthma management?
- What are the benefits of breathing exercises as a form of physical therapy for asthma?
- What type of patient (children and adults) and health professional education is most effective in gaining asthma control?
- What is the most effective way to manage consultations and asthma control in adolescents and young people?
- Psychological interventions for adults with asthma?
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For full details of all of the questions identified by this PSP, please see the document below.