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- Title
Application of an algorithm to analyze patterns of intermittent oral corticosteroid use in asthma.
- Authors
Haughney, John; Tran, Trung N.; Heatley, Heath; Bourdin, Arnaud; Menzies-Gow, Andrew; Jackson, David J.; Maslova, Ekaterina; Chapaneri, Jatin; Skinner, Derek; Carter, Victoria; Chan, Jeffrey Shi Kai; Price, David
- Abstract
An algorithm to describe patterns of intermittent oral corticosteroid use in the UK (n = 476,167) found that one-third of patients receiving intermittent oral corticosteroids for asthma only had short gaps (<90 days) between oral corticosteroid prescriptions sometime during follow-up. The increasing frequency pattern was more likely in patients with greater asthma severity and with more short-acting β2-agonist use at baseline. Our approach may provide a clinically relevant representation of intermittent oral corticosteroid use in asthma.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CORTICOSTEROIDS; ASTHMA; ORAL medicine; FOLLOW-up studies (Medicine)
- Publication
NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2055-1010
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41533-023-00331-0