Asthma diagnosis: the changing face of guidelines

SM Drake, A Simpson, SJ Fowler - Pulmonary therapy, 2019 - Springer
… their own guidance since 2003. Here we review the history of asthma diagnostic guidelines,
NICE guidelines critique the evidence on asthma diagnosis using clinical assessment alone …

Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma: a look at the key differences between BTS/SIGN and NICE

J White, JY Paton, R Niven, H Pinnock - Thorax, 2018 - thorax.bmj.com
… The latest BTS/SIGN guideline for the management of asthma was published in 2016.2 Both
BTS … is an important discrepancy in the summary tables categorising steroid potency (NICE

An overview of the current asthma disease management guidance

J McAllister - British Journal of Nursing, 2004 - magonlinelibrary.com
… , as increasing bronchodilator use and symptoms indicate deteriorating asthma (BTS/SIGN, …
Even among those with the most severe asthma (BTS steps 4 and 5), only 18% had a plan …

An update on asthma diagnosis

C Armeftis, C Gratziou, N Siafakas… - … of Asthma, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
… this narrative review is to update the current literature on topics related to asthma diagnosis.
… The NICE guidelines supported for the first time the use of compulsory objective direct and …

Asthma diagnosis: a comparison of established diagnostic guidelines in adults with respiratory symptoms

AJ Simpson, S Drake, L Healy, R Wang… - …, 2024 - thelancet.com
… We have performed a systematic review of the literature (across EMBASE, … /GINA/NICE
guidelines perform diagnostically in adults with suspected asthma, excluding opinion and review

Asthma diagnosis: addressing the challenges

ID Pavord, A Bush, S Holgate - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 2015 - thelancet.com
… draft guideline recommends that FeNO assessment is done in all patients with suspected
asthma, partly because their reviewNICE for beginning this process at the start of the asthma

Over-and under-diagnosis in asthma

J Kavanagh, DJ Jackson, BD Kent - Breathe, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
review will examine how asthma is currently diagnosed and how this may change in the near
future, it will then review … In the UK, NICE recently published a guideline on the diagnosis of …

[PDF][PDF] Improving the management of asthma in adults in primary care

W Funston, B Higgins - Practitioner, 2014 - thepractitioner.co.uk
tests performed will depend on the likelihood of asthma versus other diagnoses. The diagnosis
section of the BTS/SIGN guideline … annual review is highlighted in both the NICE quality …

Approaches to asthma diagnosis in children and adults

S Saglani, AN Menzie-Gow - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
… of this review is to discuss the need to undertake objective tests in all patients to support
asthma diagnosis and … Although the BTS/SIGN guidelines recommend the use of lung function …

Asthma: An overview of management and education

DL Duncan - British Journal of School Nursing, 2019 - magonlinelibrary.com
… (BTS/SIGN, 2017; NICE, 2017). In fact, NICE recommends a MART regimen for people with
asthma ‘… ICS dose should continue to be ‘low’ (NICE, 2017). Examples are the drugs Fostair (…