Hot Topics - AAE Reviews

The AAE is excited to announce a new section of our website dedicated to providing up-to-date information on asthma-related literature. In this section, current articles will be presented and summarized to help AAE members remain up-to-date.

THESE SUMMARIES AND REVIEWS ARE “MEMBERS ONLY” CONTENT. FOR A LIMITED TIME, THIS CONTENT IS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC! 

• NEW! Tiotropium Therapy in Children
  
• NEW! Smoking Cessation
  
• NEW! 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 
  • For a five-minute slide presentation by the original article's author, click here (mp4 download, 15MB)

• 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:

1. Archived on Medline/PubMed
2. Published in a peer-reviewed journal within the past 12 months
3. Address a high impact topic regarding asthma pathophysiology, therapy or education

To be considered for inclusion, the review must meet the following criteria:

1. Must be a member of the AAE
2. Include the reviewer’s name, title and location
3. 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)
4. Accurately summarize the main points of the original article
5. Discuss limitations of the study (if applicable)
6. <500 words in length
7. Include a clinical implications statement that addresses the clinical utility of the study/article 
8. Be free of bias