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TOPICS
Overview
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergilllosis (ABPA)
Anaphylaxis - Updated
Asthma
Asthma Diagnosis
Environmental diagnosis
and management
Asthma Treatment:
Immunotherapy
Asthma Treatment:
Preventing Morbidity
- Updated
Asthma Treatment:
Preventing Mortality

- Updated
Asthma Treatment:
Adherence
Occupational Asthma
Conjunctivitis
Cough
Dermatitis
Atopic - Updated
Contact
Drug Allergy - Updated
Food Allergy - Updated
Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Insect Hypersensitivity
Occupational Diseases
Primary Immune Deficiency - Updated
Rhinitis/Rhinosinusitis
Rhinitis - Updated
Sinusitis
Urticaria/Angioedema - Updated
How the Allergist/Immunologist Can Help:
Consultation and Referral Guidelines Citing the Evidence

Disease Group: Asthma Treatment: Adherence
  1. Patients with asthma in whom adherence problems may be limiting optimal control
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Patients with a visit to Allergy in the prior year were significantly more likely to have been dispensed an optimally effective number of inhaled steroid canisters.1

Specialty care is associated with more refills of anti-inflammatory medications. 2

Patient compliance with national asthma guidelines was higher in patients of specialists. 3

Misunderstanding of asthma controller medications, which was associated with decreased adherence, was more likely in patients not treated by specialists. 4
Direct outcome evidence