ReviewPediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology2016
Do Written Asthma Action Plans Improve Outcomes?
Review in Pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Interventions to improve primary care provider management of atopic dermatitis: A systematic review.Pediatric dermatology · 2021Pooled it
- Digital Action Plan (Web App) for Managing Asthma Exacerbations: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Trial
- Impact of asthma control on quality of life among palestinian children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The effectiveness of telemedicine methods in the follow-up of asthma in the COVID-19 pandemic process.Tuberkuloz ve toraks · 2024Article
- Automated Interpretation of Lung Sounds by Deep Learning in Children With Asthma: Scoping Review and Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Improvement of quality of life in a family of a child with asthma after using the Written Asthma Action Plan (WAAP).Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2023Article
- Written Asthma Action Plan Improves Asthma Control and the Quality of Life among Pediatric Asthma Patients in Malaysia: A Randomized Control Trial.Korean journal of family medicine · 2023Article
- Theoretical asthma self-management program for Taiwanese adolescents with self-efficacy, outcome-expectancy, health behaviour, and asthma symptoms: A randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2020Article
- Primary care clinician adherence with asthma guidelines: the National Asthma Survey of Physicians.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2020Article
- Home Management of Childhood Asthma Exacerbations.Pulmonary therapy · 2018Article
- The presentation of a short adapted questionnaire to measure asthma knowledge of parents.BMC pediatrics · 2018Article
- Taming Asthma in School-Aged Children: A Comprehensive Review.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practiceReview
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Abstract
With appropriate management, children with asthma should expect few symptoms, no limits on activity, rare exacerbations, and normal lung function. Appropriate education of parents and other caregivers of children with asthma has clearly been shown to help achieve these goals. Although recommended in asthma guidelines, providing written asthma action plans does not improve outcomes beyond asthma education alone.
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