Asthma Outcome Measures

Authors and Disclosures

Joannie Shen^†1, Michael Johnston² and Ron D Hays<sup>2

1</sup>Air Pollution and Respiratory Health Branch/National Center for Environmental Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
²University of California, Los Angeles Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

^†Author for correspondence
gmq6@cdc.gov

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Key Issues

• Asthma outcome assessment needs to capture asthma control, prevention of adverse events, symptoms and health-related quality of life, as well as lung function.

• The Asthma Control Questionnaire is recommended for clinical research.

• The Asthma Symptom Utility Index is recommended as a core measure of asthma outcomes.

• The Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire can be used to supplement generic health-related quality of life measures to provide a deep understanding of the effect of asthma on functioning and wellbeing.