Illustrating the importance of asthma monitoring practices, this book covers how to assess disease levels in specific population groups; identifies social, geographical, and environmental factors that may influence the development of asthma; and discusses the design of cost-effective prevention and management strategies. The book reviews monitoring devices and their interpretation using established and innovative statistical techniques, methods of self-monitoring and monitoring using the Internet, monitoring strategies for the investigation of asthma triggers, and important findings gleaned from the post-marketing surveillance of asthma drugs and the monitoring of asthma mortality.

Symptoms: Monitoring and Perception. Quality of Life. Cough. Electronic Monitoring of PEF/Spirometry Technical Aspects and Clinical Results. Asthma and Telemedicine. Quality Control Analysis/Statistical Methods. Triggers: Allergen. Triggers: Occupational Exposures. Airway Hyperresponsiveness: Pharmacological Stimuli. Airway Hyperresponsiveness: Indirect Stimuli, Exercise, Mannitor, and Hypertonic Saline. Induced Sputum. Exhaled Gases. Monitoring Childhood Asthma. Asthma Epidemics, Monitoring Mortality. Monitoring Asthma in Populations. Role of Pharmacists in Asthma Monitoring. Post Marketing Drug Surveilance in Asthma