Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Children and Adolescents Clinical Practice Guideline . MedStar Health Global Initiative for Asthma. Global Strategy for Asthma Management and Prevention, 2017. Asthma Guidelines. Following science-based guidelines works. the importance of asthma control and focuses on two domains—current impairment and future risk—by which to assess asthma severity (for initiating therapy) and asthma control (for ongoing monitoring). Asthma is a serious public health problem throughout the world, affecting people of all ages. When uncontrolled, asthma can place severe limits on daily life, and is sometimes fatal. In 1993, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) was formed. Its goals and objectives were described in a 1995 management. for assessing severity of asthma but rather to describe the recommended therapy for asthma with different severity. This is the first attempt to assess the severity of asthma in a large population of asthmatics mostly taking treatment, based on the Global Initiative for Asthma guidelines. The authors propose this simple and pragmatic 2018 Clinical Practice Guidelines Page 1 of 14 Asthma Source Guideline National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Asthma Education and Prevention Program, Assess asthma severity to initiate therapy. b. Assess asthma control to monitor and adjust therapy. c. Schedule follow-up care Over the past 20 years, the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) has regularly published and annually updated a global strategy for asthma management and prevention that has formed the basis for many national guidelines. However, uptake of existing guidelines is poor. Asthma severity is a The first was the change in the late 1990s from an opinion- to an evidence-based approach for the management of asthma severity. The second, an even more radical shift, was seen in 2006, when the revised GINA guidelines involved the classification of asthma severity according to the l