Patient characteristics associated with improvements in asthma control and reduction in emergency department visits for older adults with asthma.

CONCLUSIONS: Low scores on the asthma control test and prior ED visits for asthma are strong correlates of later clinically meaningful changes in asthma control among older adults. Health systems preparing for population management of patients with asthma ought to consider incorporating serial collection of data on the ACT into the monitoring and management of older asthmatics, a high-risk patient population. PMID: 32812836 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Journal of Asthma - Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Asthma Source Type: research