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Asthma management guidelines: updates, advances, and new options Navarro RP; Schaecher KL; Rice GKJ Manag Care Pharm 2007[Aug]; 13 (6 Suppl D): S3-11; quiz S12-3BACKGROUND: Asthma still poses a substantial and unacceptable health and economic burden. The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) guidelines for the management of asthma continue to evolve based on emerging clinical data, improving the understanding of asthma and approaches to its management. OBJECTIVE: To examine the clinical implications of current NAEPP guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma and the potential impact of the proposed 2007 guidelines update on asthma management. To examine the role of managed care organizations in fostering evidence-based asthma management. SUMMARY: Current NAEPP guidelines recognize symptom control as the chief therapeutic target in the management of asthma. The proposed update to NAEPP guidelines places greater emphasis on symptom control by expanding its definition to not only include measures of impairment but also the risk for deteriorating pulmonary function, asthma exacerbations, and controller medication side effects. Although inhaled corticosteroids remain central to achieving long-term asthma control in both current and proposed guidelines, the latter offers greater treatment flexibility and recognizes combination therapy as a preferred choice for achieving control in many patients with moderate persistent asthma. Managed care organizations, primarily using disease management programs, provide impetus for the widespread adoption of evidence-based asthma treatment guidelines. CONCLUSION: Widespread adoption of evidence-based asthma management programs offers the opportunity for achieving and maintaining asthma control.|*Asthma/diagnosis/drug therapy/prevention & control[MESH]|*Disease Management[MESH]|*Practice Guidelines as Topic[MESH]|Administration, Inhalation[MESH]|Adrenal Cortex Hormones/therapeutic use[MESH]|Evidence-Based Medicine[MESH]|Humans[MESH]|Managed Care Programs[MESH]|Patient Education as Topic[MESH]|Primary Prevention/methods/standards[MESH]|United States[MESH] |