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Adherence to inhaled corticosteroids and long-acting β2-agonists in asthma: A M...
Sousa-Pinto, B; Louis, R; Anto, J M; Amaral, R; Sá-Sousa, A; Czarlewski, W; Brussino, L; Canonica, G W; Chaves Loureiro, C; Cruz, A A; Gemicioglu, BIntroduction: Adherence to controller medication is a major problem in asthma management, being difficult to assess and tackle. mHealth apps can be used to assess adherence. We aimed to assess the adherence to inhaled corticosteroids+long-acting β2-agonists (ICS+LABA) in users of the MASK-air® app, comparing the adherence to ICS+formoterol (ICS+F) with that to ICS+other LABA. Materials and methods: We analysed ...
Multidisciplinary Development and Initial Validation of a Clinical Knowledge Ba...
Pereira, AM; Jácome, C; Jacinto, T; Amaral, R; Pereira, M; Sá-Sousa, A; Couto, M; Vieira-Marques, P; Martinho, D; Vieira, A; Almeida, A; Martins, CMost mobile health (mHealth) decision support systems currently available for chronic obstructive respiratory diseases (CORDs) are not supported by clinical evidence or lack clinical validation. The development of the knowledge base that will feed the clinical decision support system is a crucial step that involves the collection and systematization of clinical knowledge from relevant scientific sources and its...
Prescribing patterns of medication for respiratory diseases - cluster analysis ...
Sá-Sousa, A; Amaral, R; Almeida, R; Freitas, A; Almeida Fonseca, JWe aimed to describe, for the first time, the prescribing patterns among patients on persistent respiratory treatment, from the Portuguese electronic prescription and dispensing database. This was a one-year retrospective population-based analysis of prescriptions (n = 39810) for medication for respiratory disease and exacerbations. Cluster analysis was applied based on medication and prescribers' specialty. Pr...
Phenotyping allergic respiratory diseases: An unsupervised classification using...
Amaral, Rita; Pereira, AM; Araújo, L; Sá-Sousa, A; Jacinto, Tiago; Almeida, R; Gonçalves, I; Couto, M; Delgado, L; Bosquet, J; Fonseca, JAThe aims of this study were to identify distinct classes (phenotypes) of adults with allergic respiratory diseases, using an unsupervised method, and to examine their associations with inflammatory biomarkers, and allergic sensitization.
The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry: Development, Features, and Data Sharing ...
Sá-Sousa, A; Fonseca, JA; Pereira, AM; Ferreira, A; Arrobas, A; Mendes, A; Drummond, M; Videira, W; Costa, T; Farinha, P; Soares, J; Rocha, PThe Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry (Registo de Asma Grave Portugal, RAG) was developed by an open collaborative network of asthma specialists. RAG collects data from adults and pediatric severe asthma patients that despite treatment optimization and adequate management of comorbidities require step 4/5 treatment according to GINA recommendations. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation ...
The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry: Development, Features, and Data Sharing ...
Sá-Sousa, A; Fonseca, JA; Pereira, AM; Ferreira, A; Arrobas, A; Mendes, A; Drummond, M; Videira, W; Costa, T; Farinha, P; Soares, J; Rocha, PThe Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry (Registo de Asma Grave Portugal, RAG) was developed by an open collaborative network of asthma specialists. RAG collects data from adults and pediatric severe asthma patients that despite treatment optimization and adequate management of comorbidities require step 4/5 treatment according to GINA recommendations. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation ...
The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry: Development, Features, and Data Sharing ...
Sá-Sousa, A; Fonseca, J; Pereira, A; Ferreira, A; Arrobas, A; Mendes, A; Drummond, M; Videira, W; Costa, T; Farinha, P; Soares, J; Rocha, P; Todo-Bom, AThe Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry (Registo de Asma Grave Portugal, RAG) was developed by an open collaborative network of asthma specialists. RAG collects data from adults and pediatric severe asthma patients that despite treatment optimization and adequate management of comorbidities require step 4/5 treatment according to GINA recommendations. In this paper, we describe the development and implementation ...
Cost of asthma in children: A nationwide, population-based, cost-of-illness study
Ferreira de Magalhães, M; Amaral, R; Pereira, AM; Sá-Sousa, A; Azevedo, I; Azevedo, LF; Fonseca, JABACKGROUND: Childhood asthma is very prevalent and costs can be high, especially in severe disease. This study aimed to estimate the cost of asthma in Portuguese children and the variations by level of asthma control. METHODS: A nationwide, population- and prevalence-based cost-of-illness study with a societal perspective was conducted. We measured direct and indirect costs using a bottom-up approach and a huma...
Validation of control of allergic rhinitis and asthma test for children (CARATK...
Linhares, DV; Fonseca, JA; Borrego, LM; Matos, A; Pereira, AM; Sá-Sousa, A; Gaspar, A; Mendes, C; Moreira, C; Gomes, E; Rebelo, FFBACKGROUND: Control of Allergic Rhinitis and Asthma Test for Children (CARATKids) is the first questionnaire that assesses simultaneously allergic rhinitis and asthma control in children. It was recently developed, but redundancy of questions and its psychometric properties were not assessed. This study aimed to (i) establish the final version of the CARATKids questionnaire and (ii) evaluate its reliability, re...
Operational definitions of asthma in recent epidemiological studies are inconsi...
Sá-Sousa, A; Jacinto, T; Azevedo, LF; Morais-Almeida, M; Robalo-Cordeiro, C; Bugalho-Almeida, A; Bousquet, J; Fonseca, JAOBJECTIVE: The best combination of questions to define asthma in epidemiological asthma studies is not known. We summarized the operational definitions of asthma used in prevalence studies and empirically assess how asthma prevalence estimates vary depending on the definition used. METHODS: We searched the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of knowledge and included (1) cross-sectional studies (2) on asthma prevalence (3)...