Implementing the guidelines: What do you do when the rubber hits the road?

Elliot Israel

doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2020.10.010

Implementing the guidelines: What do you do when the rubber hits the road?

J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2020 Dec;146(6):1271-1274. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2020.10.010.

Author

Elliot Israel¹

Affiliation

¹ Harvard Medical School, Gloria M. and Anthony C. Simboli Distinguished Chair in Asthma Research, Boston, Mass; Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Allergy and Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass. Electronic address: eisrael@partners.org.

PMID: 33280710
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2020.10.010

Abstract

The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee Expert Panel Report 4 Working Group has issued a selected update to the 2007 National Asthma Education and Prevention Program guidelines based on predetermined questions. This rostrum provides an overview of the clinically important recommendations and a guide to practical issues that clinicians may face as they implement the working group's updated guidance. It also draws attention to areas in which the recommendations differ from those of the Global INitiative for Asthma. Factors that clinicians may wish to consider as they step up therapy in the continuum of care are elaborated, especially in areas in which the update does not provide sufficient information to make a recommendation.

Keywords: Asthma; SMART; bronchial thermoplasty; exhaled nitric oxide; guidelines; immunotherapy; inhaled corticosteroids.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Anti-Asthmatic Agents / therapeutic use*
Asthma / prevention & control*
Education, Medical, Continuing*
Humans
Practice Guidelines as Topic

Substances

Anti-Asthmatic Agents