Pediatric Asthma Management

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to provide a useful index to English-language, scientific publications (2007English-language, scientific publications ( -2008 related to pediatric asthma management. The authors first surveyed abstracts to identify studies likely to affect the practice and research direction of asthma and allergy educators. To accomplish the goal of providing a comprehensive overview of the literature, only brief descriptions of selected studies are provided. The authors have not attempted to describe and critique research designs or discuss implications of findings. Expert panel reports are specifically designed to accomplish these important goals. However, approximately 5 years lapse between expert panel reports (or updates). In the interim, the authors believe that a year-by-year review of new research will be useful to many people. The draft version of Expert Panel Report 3 was released in January 2007, so the review began with that date. The authors hope this approach will stimulate interest in and improve access to the literature, facilitate collaboration, and perhaps inspire new thinking that could move the asthma and allergy educator community along a little faster in the common effort to reduce asthma burden among children.T he purpose of this article is to provide a useful index to English-language, scientific publications (2007 and related to pediatric asthma management. We first surveyed abstracts to identify studies likely to affect the practice and research direction of asthma and allergy educators. To accomplish the goal of providing a comprehensive overview of the literature, we have provided only brief descriptions of selected studies. We have not attempted to describe and critique research designs or discuss implications of findings.Expert panel reports 1 are specifically designed to accomplish these important goals. However, approximately 5 years lapse between expert panel reports (or updates). In the interim, we believe that a year-by-year review of new research will be useful to many people. The draft version of Expert Panel Report 3 (EPR3) was released in January 2007, so our review began with that date. We hope this approach will stimulate interest in and improve access to the literature, facilitate collaboration, and perhaps inspire new thinking that could move the asthma and allergy educator community along a little faster in the common effort to reduce asthma burden among children.Our original search strategy yielded 493 articles for the years 2007, 2008, and 2009. We limited part 1 of this endeavor to the years 2007 and 2008 to keep to a reasonable article length. The number and importance of publications in 2009 warrants a separate article. Of the more than 250 eligible articles from 2007 and 2008, many have been excluded from this index.Excluded studies included those focused solely on education of health professions students, reports or discussions of interventions not accompanied by results, very small studies with inconclusive results, reports of participant evaluat...