ReviewJournal of asthma and allergy2017
Asthma referrals: a key component of asthma management that needs to be addressed.
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- Associations of rurality, child opportunity, and distance with use of pediatric asthma specialists.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2026Article
- Primary care provider referral patterns and awareness of biologic therapy for uncontrolled asthma.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. Global · 2026Article
- Pediatric asthma specialist care utilization among marginalized children with poorly controlled asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2026Article
- Asthma control and opportunities to optimize management and the healthcare provider experience using the AsthmaOptimiser online tool in Dutch general practice: the CAPTURE study.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2025Observational
- A 21-Practice Evaluation of an Asthma and COPD Quality Improvement Program.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2025Article
- Health system characteristics and evidence-based asthma care.Frontiers in allergy · 2025Article
- Elevating the Importance of Asthma Care in the United States.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2024Article
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- Family Physicians' Awareness of the Burden of Oral Corticosteroids in Asthma Patients.Acta medica academica · 2024Observational
- Mixed-methods evaluation of an enhanced asthma biologics clinical pathway in the West Midlands UK.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2024Article
- The Path to Diagnosis of Severe Asthma-A Qualitative Exploration.International journal of general medicine · 2024Article
- A Charter to Fundamentally Change the Role of Oral Corticosteroids in the Management of Asthma.Advances in therapy · 2023Review
- The feasibility and impact of implementing a computer-guided consultation to target health inequality in Asthma.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Poorly Controlled Asthma and Factors Associated with Specialist Referral in Those with Poorly Controlled Asthma in a Paediatric Asthma Population.Journal of asthma and allergy · 2023Article
- A Renewed Charter: Key Principles to Improve Patient Care in Severe Asthma.Advances in therapy · 2022Article
- Systemic corticosteroids in asthma: A call to action from World Allergy Organization and Respiratory Effectiveness Group.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2022Review
- Breaking the vicious circle-the Asthma Referral Identifier (ReferID) tool.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2022Review
- Trends and predictors of specialist assessments in oral corticosteroid treated asthma among young adults.ERJ open research · 2022Article
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- Keeping Pace with Adolescent Asthma: A Practical Approach to Optimizing Care.Pulmonary therapy · 2022Article
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Abstract
Heterogeneity of asthma and difficulty in achieving optimal control are the major challenges in the management of asthma. To help attain the best possible clinical outcomes in patients with asthma, several guidelines provide recommendations for patients who will require a referral to a specialist. Such referrals can help in clearing the uncertainty from the initial diagnosis, provide tailored treatment options to patients with persistent symptoms and offer the patients access to health care providers with expertise in the management of the asthma; thus, specialist referrals have a substantial impact on disease prognosis and the patient's health status. Hurdles in implementing these recommendations include lack of their dissemination among health care providers and nonadherence to these guidelines; these hurdles considerably limit the implementation of specialist referrals, eventually affecting the rate of referrals. In this review, recommendations for specialist referrals from several key international and national asthma guidelines and other relevant published literature are evaluated. Furthermore, we highlight why referrals are not happening, how this can be improved, and ultimately, what should be done in the specialist setting, based on existing evidence in published literature.
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