Predictive Ability of Therapeutic Risk Factors in Pediatric and Adult Asthma Patients

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2010-04-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the predictive ability of three asthma risk markers:

the ratio of controller medication to total asthma medication, an albuterol only marker, and an oral corticosteroid use marker, as well as to compare the precision of these tools between adult and pediatric patient populations. This retrospective longitudinal analysis will use 2 different databases: a large managed care database and a large fee for service Medicaid database.

• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: GlaxoSmithKline

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with asthma as determined by ICD-9 codes and asthma drug use

• at least 4 years of age

• use of at least 1 controller or at least 5 albuterol prescriptions in 12 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with COPD or treatment for COPD