The Association of Asthma Educators has a vision for improved asthma management through evidence-based asthma education, where providers are able to advocate for their patients and address disparities in asthma outcomes.
Professional Materials
the vision of THE ASSOCIATION OF ASTHMA EDUCATORS
Hot Topics
- Tiotropium Therapy in Children
- Smoking Cessation
- Single Component Intervention for Cockroach Control Reduces Cockroach Exposure and Asthma Morbidity in Children
- Virtual Teach-To-Goal Adaptive Learning of Inhaler Technique for Inpatients with Asthma or COPD
- Association of Sugar Sweetened Beverage Intake Frequency and Asthma Among US Adults
- Risk Factors Associated with 30-Day Asthma Readmissions
- Association between Asthma and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Meta-Analysis
- Inhaler Technique in Children with Asthma: A Systematic Review
- Asthma Action Plan Receipt Among Children with Asthma 2 – 17 Years of Age
- Asthma as a Risk Factor for Zoster in Adults
- Changes in Clinical Conversations when Providers are Informed of Asthma Patients’ Beliefs About Medication Use and Integrative Medical Therapies
Click here for the review article - Asthma on the College Campus
- The Uses of Telemedicine to Improve Asthma Control
- A Randomized-Controlled Trial of a Lay-Educator Inpatient Asthma Education Program
- Effect of Vitamin D3 Supplementation During Pregnancy on Risk of Persistent Wheeze in the Offspring: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Lebrikzumab in moderate to severe asthma: pooled data from two randomized placebo controlled studies
AAE Members can select relevant articles, prepare a brief (<500 word) summary of the main points of the article and include a clinical implication statement. A member of the Asthma Hot Topics subcommittee will review the submissions and select which reviews will be posted on the AAE website. The postings will include the author of the review, article summary and literature reference. All AAE members are encouraged to participate.
Please email Greg Metz if you would like to submit a review.
To be considered for inclusion, the article must meet the following criteria:
- Archived on Medline/PubMed
- Published in a peer-reviewed journal within the past 12 months
- Address a high impact topic regarding asthma pathophysiology, therapy or education
To be considered for inclusion, the review must meet the following criteria:
- Must be a member of the AAE
- Include the reviewer’s name, title and location
- Provide the reference (either article author(s) title, journal, volume, number, and pages for a journal or title, name of source, website address, and date accessed)
- Accurately summarize the main points of the original article
- Discuss limitations of the study (if applicable)
- <500 words in length
- Include a clinical implications statement that addresses the clinical utility of the study/article
- Be free of bias
Scholarly Articles
This review summarizes recent evidence demonstrating the effectiveness or otherwise of monoclonal antibody-based therapies in patients with asthma.
From Medscape. Click here: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/817432
From Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, March 2015, 16 standards were created jointly by a panel of experts from the Association of Asthma Educators; the National Asthma Education Certification Board; the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology; the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology; the American College of Chest Physicians; the American Lung Association; the American Thoracic Society; and the Joint Council of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology.
Click here: https://www.annallergy.org/article/S1081-1206(14)00895-3/fulltext
Article on validation of the results tested on using the Doser (dose counter) for MDI’s, written by Maureen George.
Guidelines from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI), offers a user-friendly “operational document”. It helps health care professionals understand which controller treatments are right for which age groups and identifies when a step up is needed.
The Pediatric Asthma eYardstick presents an in-depth model including practical recommendations for a sustained step-up in asthma therapy for children with inadequately controlled asthma. This interactive version is designed to enable practitioners to intuitively and efficiently utilize the yardstick model in an office setting.
Click here: https://education.acaai.org/paeyardstick
Archived webinar and presentation slides from Regional Asthma Management and Prevention.
Published by the Urban Institute. Download PDF
Professional Links
List of asthma coalitions by state as well as some national coalitions.
Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America
American Lung Association, Asthma
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, &
Immunology
American Association for Respiratory Care
American
College of Allergy, Asthma, Immunology
American College of Chest Physicians
American Public Health Association
American Pharmacists Association
Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD)
National Center for Environmental Health
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Asthma educators topic reviews
AAE Members can select relevant articles, prepare a brief (<500 word) summary of the main points of the article and include a clinical implication statement. A member of the Asthma Hot Topics subcommittee will review the submissions and select which reviews will be posted on the AAE website. The postings will include the author of the review, article summary and literature reference. All AAE members are encouraged to participate.
Submit an article for the hot topics committee to review
To be considered for inclusion, the article must meet the following criteria: archived on Medline/PubMed, published in a peer-reviewed journal within the past 12 months, and address a high impact topic regarding asthma pathophysiology, therapy or education. Your review of the article must include your name, your title, your location, and a reference for the article (author(s), source name, journal volume, page number, website address, and date accessed). In less than 500 words, you need to accurately and without bias summarize the main points of the original article, discuss any applicable limitations of the study, and provide clinical implications statement that addresses the clinical utility of the study/article. You must be an Association of Asthma Educators member in order to submit your Hot Topic for review.
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