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ArticleThe European respiratory journal2019

The Electronic Asthma Management System (eAMS) improves primary care asthma management.

Samir Gupta, Courtney Price, Gina Agarwal, David Chan, Sanjeev Goel, Louis-Philippe Boulet, Alan G Kaplan, Gerald Lebovic, Muhammad Mamdani, Sharon E Straus

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Article in The European respiratory journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. 2020 Brazilian Thoracic Association recommendations for the management of asthma.Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia
    Guideline
  2. A cluster randomized controlled trial of an electronic medical record-based pathway for pediatric asthma in primary care in Alberta.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2025
    Trial
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  6. Early initiation of inhaled corticosteroid-long-acting βPediatric allergy and immunology : official publication of the European Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology · 2026
    Article
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  9. COPD Action Plans: Gaps in Development Methods, Content, and Format.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026
    Review
  10. User-Centered Design of an Electronic COPD Patient Questionnaire for Clinical Decision Support.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2026
    Article
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  14. Integrating asthma care guidelines into primary care electronic medical records: a review focused on Canadian knowledge translation tools.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2024
    Review
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  18. Appropriate inhaler use in children with asthma: barriers and opportunities through the lens of the socio-ecological model.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2023
    Review
  19. Mobile Health for Asthma.CHEST pulmonary · 2023
    Review
  20. Barriers and facilitators of electronic patient portal uptake for asthma management.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2023
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Samir GuptaKeenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada guptas@smh.ca.
Courtney PriceKeenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Gina AgarwalDept of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
David ChanDept of Family Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Sanjeev GoelHealth Quality Innovation Collaborative, Brampton, ON, Canada.
Louis-Philippe BouletInstitut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Universite Laval, Québec, QC, Canada.
Alan G KaplanFamily Physician Airways Group of Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Gerald LebovicApplied Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Muhammad MamdaniLi Ka Shing Centre for Healthcare Analytics Research and Training (LKS-CHART), Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sharon E StrausKeenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A high prevalence of suboptimal asthma control is attributable to known evidence-practice gaps. We developed a computerised clinical decision support system (the Electronic Asthma Management System (eAMS)) to address major care gaps and sought to measure its impact on care in adults with asthma.This was a 2-year interrupted time-series study of usual care (year 1)

Indexed as

Decision Making, Computer-AssistedAdultAsthmaFemaleHumansInterrupted Time Series AnalysisMaleMiddle AgedPrimary Health CareProspective StudiesTreatment Outcome

Identifiers

PMID30765503
PMCPMC6482383

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