Application of an algorithm to analyze patterns of intermittent oral corticosteroid use in asthma
- Resource Type
- Original Paper
- 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
- Source
- npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine. 33(1)
- Subject
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2055-1010
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.