zafirlukast and triamcinolone acetonide and slightly more cost effective than flunisolide in adult patients with asthma. Analyses …Contemporary asthma management guidelines list inhaled corticosteroids as the preferred controller medication for … patients with persistent asthma. Despite the availability of explicit guidelines, there is evidence that these agents are …

Cost estimates from developed countries indicate that asthma accounts for up to 2% of the economic cost of all diseases …. A large proportion of asthma-related costs are attributable to poor asthma control. Treatment strategies which improve … clinical outcomes in patients with asthma, therefore, have the potential for significant economic benefits, and it is important …

Background and objective: Asthma is a chronic-episodic disease characterised by acute, symptomatic episodes of varying … severity. We developed a Markov model that can be used to estimate the cost effectiveness of alternative asthma treatments …. Because of the costs they incur, asthma exacerbations (`attacks') requiring intervention by a healthcare professional were a …

(TM)) with chlorofluorocarbon-beclomethasone dipropionate (CFC-BDP) in patients with chronic stable asthma previously receiving … CFC-BDP in patients with stable asthma. Setting: International, multicentre study at 57 study sites in the US, UK, The … Participants: Patients (n = 473) >=12 years of age with currently stable asthma that had been stable (i.e. no exacerbations …

[Asthma Control and Education Program (ACE)] on patient outcomes (clinical and functional) and on resource utilisation in … socio-economically disadvantaged (and largely Hispanic) individuals with asthma treated at Hartford Hospital. Design and … evaluation of disease management programmes requires outcomes data. The results of this study of an asthma disease management …

management programme for asthma and presents the results of a study of patients referred to this programme. The objectives of the …-reported asthma triggers; and 4. patients' self-care skills. The proportion of referred patients who actually enrolled in the … asthma in inner city and minority patients, which are important topics in current research. …

Objectives: To identify the asthma prevalence rate, the total healthcare and asthma-related treatment costs, and the … medical and pharmacy costs associated with different asthma medication usage patterns in a managed-care organisation (MCO … claims database was searched from 1994 to 1996 for patients having at least one asthma medical claim in either the first or …

), and disease-severity measures in patients with asthma. The hypothesis studied was that patients with asthma with more … severe disease are willing to pay more for a hypothetical cure of asthma than those with less severe disease. Design setting …/Patients and participants: One hundred patients with asthma were recruited from community pharmacies in Kentucky for 30-minute face …

Background: Asthma is a major public health problem in developed countries. In Canada, the prevalence of asthma is … of asthma in Canada to be between $Can504 million and $Can648 million (1990 dollars). 61% of all asthma costs were direct … productivity loss and level of function related to severity of asthma symptoms, and briefly review the published data on the role …