The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice
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J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract · Mar 2014
Validation of parental reports of asthma trajectory, burden, and risk by using the pediatric asthma control and communication instrument.
Despite a growing interest, few pediatric asthma questionnaires assess multiple dimensions of asthma morbidity, as recommended by national asthma guidelines, or use patient-reported outcomes. ⋯ PACCI Direction, Bother, and Risk are valid measures of parent-reported outcomes and show good discriminative validity. The PACCI is a simple clinical tool to assess multiple dimensions of parent-reported asthma morbidity, in addition to risk and control.
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J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract · Mar 2014
Alcohol-induced respiratory symptoms are common in patients with aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease.
A large percentage of patients with aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) report the development of alcohol-induced respiratory reactions, but the true prevalence of respiratory reactions caused by alcoholic beverages in these patients was not known. ⋯ Alcohol ingestion causes respiratory reactions in the majority of patients with AERD, and clinicians should be aware that these alcohol-induced reactions are significantly more common in AERD than in controls who are aspirin tolerant.