Asthma
New findings from J.I. Ivanova and co-authors in the area of asthma published
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, February 16th, 2009
In this recent report published in the American Journal of Managed Care, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To measure adherence to inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy using prescription claims and a patient survey, to identify local adverse events (LAEs) from the patient perspective and from medical records, and to evaluate the association between LAEs and adherence to ICS therapy. Survey administration and claims-based and medical record-abstracted data."
"Patients aged 6 to 64 years with persistent asthma (defined using an established algorithm) and at least 2 ICS prescriptions were selected from a claims database (1999-2006) of a central...
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