Asthma hospital admission and mortality in mainland Portugal 2000–2007

Almeida, A. Bugalho de; Covas, Antoni Mulet; Prates, L.; Fragoso, Edjane

doi:10.1016/s2173-5115(09)70119-8

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“…Results and several follow-up reports of the Finnish programme have been published previously [52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]. Apart from the Finnish programme, results have only been published from the Polish [14,15] and Portuguese [17] programmes. The other listed programmes have started recently and results are not yet available.…”

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“…Only results from a regional programme in Poland [14,15], and national programmes in Portugal [17] and Turkey [42] have been published in addition to the 17-year results of the Finnish programme [58]. An achievement with all programmes has been a clear reduction in asthma-caused hospitalisation rates.…”

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“…The Portuguese national programme in 2000-2007 showed a 15% reduction in hospitalisation rate (table E2) [17].…”

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“…National asthma programmes somewhat analogous to the Finnish one have been initiated in other European countries, including: France [9], Ireland [10,11], Italy [12], the Netherlands [13], Poland [14][15][16], Portugal [17,18] and Turkey [19][20][21][22][23][24]. The Norwegian government issued a national asthma programme in 2008-2012, but it is only available in the local language [25].…”

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National and regional asthma programmes in Europe

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This review presents seven national asthma programmes to support the European Asthma Research and Innovation Partnership in developing strategies to reduce asthma mortality and morbidity across Europe. From published data it appears that in order to influence asthma care, national/regional asthma programmes are more effective than conventional treatment guidelines. An asthma programme should start with the universal commitments of stakeholders at all levels and the programme has to be endorsed by political and governmental bodies. When the national problems have been identified, the goals of the programme have to be clearly defined with measures to evaluate progress. An action plan has to be developed, including defined re-allocation of patients and existing resources, if necessary, between primary care and specialised healthcare units or hospital centres. Patients should be involved in guided self-management education and structured follow-up in relation to disease severity. The three evaluated programmes show that, thanks to rigorous efforts, it is possible to improve patients' quality of life and reduce hospitalisation, asthma mortality, sick leave and disability pensions. The direct and indirect costs, both for the individual patient and for society, can be significantly reduced. The results can form the basis for development of further programme activities in Europe. @ERSpublications Current asthma programmes confirm patients' quality of life can be improved while significantly reducing costs

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“…The Portuguese national programme in 2000-2007 showed a 15% reduction in hospitalisation rate (table E2) [17].…”

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“…Epidemiological studies at the population level have been critical to the assessment of population's needs with regard to chronic respiratory diseases [3]. However, elderly-targeted, population-based studies considering asthma and rhinitis are scarce [4e7], although the greatest burden of asthma deaths has occurred among elderly subjects [8,9].…”

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