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Asthma

Editors' Choice of Best Available Content

This collection features the best content from AFP, as identified by the AFP editors, on asthma and related issues, including allergens, beta agonists, chronic cough, exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, inhalers, and wheezing. New research may affect the interpretation and application of this material. Clinical judgment is advised. Note that AFP content published within the past two years is accessible to AAFP members and paid subscribers only.

Categories

Overview

Screening and Diagnosis

Prevention

Treatment

Complications and Special Situations

Editorials and Letters

Improving Practice

Patient Education, Self-Care

Other AFP Content

Other Resources from AAFP

Overview
11/01/2021	Asthma Management Guidelines: Focused Updates for 2020 [Editorials]
11/01/2021	Asthma Management: Updated Guidelines from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute [Practice Guidelines]
06/15/2020	Asthma: Updated Diagnosis and Management Recommendations from GINA [Practice Guidelines]
07/15/2013	Acute Asthma and Other Recurrent Wheezing Disorders in Children [Clinical Evidence Handbook]
11/01/2021	Vocal Cord Dysfunction
Screening and Diagnosis
03/15/2020	Office Spirometry: Indications and Interpretation
10/15/2011	Evaluation of the Patient with Chronic Cough
05/01/2009	Overview of Changes to Asthma Guidelines: Diagnosis and Screening
04/15/2008	The Diagnosis of Wheezing in Children
Prevention
11/01/2018	Culture-Specific Asthma Education Programs for Minority Groups [Cochrane for Clinicians]
01/15/2010	Outdoor Air Pollutants and Patient Health
09/01/2007	The Role of Allergens in Asthma
Treatment
03/01/2021	Difficult-to-Treat and Severe Asthma: Management Strategies
02/15/2021	Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate for Acute Asthma Exacerbation in Children and Adults [Medicine by the Numbers]
10/15/2020	School-Based Asthma Management Programs [FPIN's Help Desk Answers]
02/15/2020	Dupilumab (Dupixent) for Asthma [STEPS]
01/15/2019	Intravenous Magnesium Sulfate for Acute Asthma Exacerbations [FPIN's Clinical Inquiries]
06/01/2018	Combined Inhaled Short-Acting Beta₂ Agonist and Anticholinergic Agents for Asthma [Medicine by the Numbers]
04/15/2018	Qvar for Treatment of Chronic Asthma [Medicine by the Numbers]
03/01/2018	Combination LABA Inhalers Compared with High-Dose Inhaled Steroids for Adults with Asthma [Medicine by the Numbers]
11/15/2017	Reslizumab (Cinqair) for Eosinophilic Asthma [STEPS]
09/01/2017	Vitamin D for the Management of Asthma [Cochrane for Clinicians]
08/01/2017	Effects of Yoga in Patients with Asthma [Cochrane for Clinicians]
09/15/2016	Medications for Chronic Asthma
07/01/2016	Intermittent Inhaled Corticosteroid Therapy for Mild Persistent Asthma in Children and Adults [Cochrane for Clinicians]
04/01/2016	Leukotriene Receptor Antagonists in the Treatment of Acute Asthma [Medicine by the Numbers]
10/01/2014	Safety of Long-Acting Beta Agonists in Adults with Asthma [Cochrane for Clinicians]
03/15/2014	PPIs, Childhood Asthma, and the Problem of Therapeutic Creep [AFP Journal Club]
03/01/2013	Physical Training for Patients with Asthma [Cochrane for Clinicians]
07/01/2011	Management of Acute Asthma Exacerbations
01/01/2003	Are Metered-Dose Inhalers with Holding Chambers Better Than Nebulizers for Treating Acute Asthma? [Cochrane for Clinicians]
07/01/2008	Inhaled Steroid Use and Asthma Control in Patients with Mild Persistent Asthma [AFP Journal Club]
03/01/2010	Addition of Long-Acting Beta Agonists for Asthma in Children [Cochrane for Clinicians]
06/01/2006	Long-Acting Beta₂ Agonists as Steroid-Sparing Agents [Cochrane for Clinicians]
06/01/2009	Should Salmeterol Be Used for Long-Term Asthma Control? [Cochrane for Clinicians]
01/15/2007	Levalbuterol Tartrate (Xopenex HFA) for the Treatment of Bronchospasm [STEPS]
01/01/2007	Leukotriene Inhibitors in the Treatment of Allergy and Asthma
Complications and Special Situations
11/01/2021	Vocal Cord Dysfunction: Rapid Evidence Review
10/01/2020	Effects of Inhaled Corticosteroids on Growth in Children with Persistent Asthma [Cochrane for Clinicians]
08/15/2011	Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction: Diagnosis and Management
03/01/2003	The 'Crashing Asthmatic'
Editorials and Letters
05/01/2009	The New Asthma Guidelines [Editorials]
07/15/2006	Beta2 Agonists in the Treatment of Asthma [Editorials]
02/15/2004	Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm vs. Exercise-Induced Asthma [Letters to the Editor]
Improving Practice
04/15/2000	Improving Adherence to Asthma Therapy: What Physicians Can Do [Editorials]
From FPM AAFP's Peer-Reviewed Practice Improvement Journal
01/01/2010	Tools and Strategies for Improving Asthma Management
10/01/2004	Asthma Days: An Approach to Planned Asthma Care
Patient Education, Self-Care
08/15/2011	Exercise-Induced Wheezing
07/01/2011	How to Treat an Asthma Attack
10/15/2011	Chronic Cough
From FamilyDoctor.org AAFP's Patient Information Resource
	Asthma
Other AFP Content
Tips from Other Journals
09/15/2010	Diagnosing Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction
04/15/2004	Does Asthma Adversely Affect Pregnancy Outcomes?
Other Resources from AAFP
	Metric Asthma Module 2016