Some fungal spores can trigger asthma exacerbation but knowledge of which outdoor fungal spores contribute to asthma hospitalisation is limited.
To characterize factors associated with readmission for acute asthma exacerbation, particularly around caregiver asthma knowledge, beliefs, and reported adherence to prescribed medication regimens.
To improve the understanding on delay and failure to seek medical treatment, more knowledge is needed on exacerbation perception and health behaviour by patients specifically during exacerbation episodes.
In this study, where patient education mainly consisted of information about medications and how to act when getting an exacerbation, patients' subjective experience of their knowledge was poor, and many continued to do ER visits [ 24, 26, 32].
To our knowledge, similar data on asthma exacerbations is not available.
However, a recent review identified no studies of work‐related psychosocial stress and asthma exacerbations 8. To address this gap in the knowledge, we investigated the associations between job strain, an operationalization of work‐related psychosocial stress, and severe asthma exacerbations, defined as hospitalizations or deaths, in 100 000 European men and women.
Common but potentially serious adverse events such as exacerbation frequency may be interpreted differently given the knowledge of treatment assignment.
Topics covered in the modules were COPD disease knowledge, respiratory drugs, breathing techniques, managing exacerbations, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, managing stress and anxiety (optional), and home exercise (optional).
The design of new interventions to improve health care for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) requires knowledge about what patients with an acute exacerbation experience as important and useful.
Although many biomarkers of COPD have been described, to our knowledge, none has been shown to herald exacerbations.
