Quantifying the proportion of severe asthma exacerbations attributable to inhaled corticosteroid nonadherence

JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

卷:128

Article

Williams, L. Keoki^1,2  Peterson, Edward L.³  Wells, Karen³  Ahmedani, Brian K.¹  Kumar, Rajesh⁴  Burchard, Esteban G.^5,6  Chowdhry, Vimal K.¹  Favro, David¹  Lanfear, David E.^1,2  Pladevall, Manel^1,7 

[1] Henry Ford Hlth Syst, Ctr Hlth Serv Res, Detroit, MI USA

[2] Henry Ford Hlth Syst, Dept Internal Med, Detroit, MI USA

[3] Henry Ford Hlth Syst, Dept Publ Hlth Sci, Detroit, MI USA

[4] Childrens Mem Hosp, Div Allergy & Immunol, Chicago, IL 60614 USA

[5] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA

[6] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Biopharmaceut Sci, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA

[7] Res Triangle Inst Hlth Solut, Barcelona, Spain

关键词: Medication adherence;    inhaled corticosteroids;    asthma;    patient compliance;    asthma exacerbations;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jaci.2011.09.011

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

Background: Asthma is an inflammatory condition often punctuated by episodic symptomatic worsening, and accordingly, patients with asthma might have waxing and waning adherence to controller therapy. Objective: We sought to measure changes in inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) adherence over time and to estimate the effect of this changing pattern of use on asthma exacerbations. Methods: ICS adherence was estimated from electronic prescription and fill information for 298 participants in the Study of Asthma Phenotypes and Pharmacogenomic Interactions by Race-Ethnicity. For each patient, we calculated a moving average of ICS adherence for each day of follow-up. Asthma exacerbations were defined as the need for oral corticosteroids, an asthma-related emergency department visit, or an asthma-related hospitalization. Proportional hazard models were used to assess the relationship between ICS medication adherence and asthma exacerbations. Results: Adherence to ICS medications began to increase before the first asthma exacerbation and continued afterward. Adherence was associated with a reduction in exacerbations but was only statistically significant among patients whose adherence was greater than 75% of the prescribed dose (hazard ratio, 0.61; 95% CI, 0.41-0.90) when compared with patients whose adherence was 25% or less. This pattern was largely confined to patients whose asthma was not well controlled initially. An estimated 24% of asthma exacerbations were attributable to ICS medication nonadherence. Conclusions: ICS adherence varies in the time period leading up to and after an asthma exacerbation, and nonadherence likely contributes to a large number of these exacerbations. High levels of adherence are likely required to prevent these events. (J Allergy Clin Immunol 2011;128:1185-91.)

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