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Coach McLungsSM, Facilitating Shared Decision Making for Asthma - Patients and Caregivers Perspectives [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Asthma is a prevalent chronic disease that is difficult to manage and associated with marked disparities in outcomes. Coach McLungsSM (CML) is a pre-visit interactive, digital coaching experience that engages patients, caregivers, and providers in a tailored conversation about asthma and fosters SDM in creating a plan of care.

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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It is feasible to use electronic health record (EHR) data in the Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) to accurately predict childhood asthma risk, according to a study published in the June issue of eClinicalMedicine. percent) had a confirmed asthma diagnosis after age 4 years.

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Asthma with Dr. Sara Ellingwood

Louisville Lectures

Sara Ellingwood presents a talk on Asthma starting with its definition and phenotypes. She discusses making a diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and management. After, Dr. Ellingwood ends with a discussion on when to refer.

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Cough Monitoring Solutions: The Current Digital Health Landscape

The Medical Futurist

For example, those with conditions like COPD and asthma could glean insights into whether they are about to experience a flare-up. They are now expanding to influenza and tuberculosis diagnosis with the same technology. If you’ve guessed 4.6 coughs, then you’ve hit the bull’s eye as this is what the most recent study indicates.

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Can aspirin make your breathing worse?

Medical Xpress

Spring allergies feel bad enough for people with nasal congestion and asthma symptoms. For some people with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), also known as Samter's triad, it can be a challenging and long road to diagnosis. But imagine if aspirin is the culprit that makes everything feel worse and you didn't know it.

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How do I… Interpret Pulmonary function tests? – Zoë Lyon and Steph Le

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Were there always these many numbers and percentages and graphs?! How do I… INTERPRET PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS ? First, what are some common PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTS ? Was there poor or inconsistent effort?

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Many of the children you will evaluate during your shift are among the estimated 10 million United States (US) ED visits made by children with asthma, bronchiolitis, and croup, the most common pediatric respiratory conditions presenting to acute care settings.

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