Study of the impact of non-compliance with GINA recommendations on the care consumption of adult asthmatic patient

Study type

• Study topic:
  Disease /health condition
• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Drug utilisation

  Healthcare resource utilisation
• Data collection methods:
  Secondary data collection

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Cohort

Study drug and medical condition

• Medical condition to be studied:
  Asthma

Population studied

• Short description of the study population:
  Persistent asthmatic patients.
• Age groups:
  Adolescents (12 to < 18 years)

  Adults (18 to < 46 years)
• Special population of interest:
  Other
• Special population of interest, other:
  Asthma patients
• Estimated number of subjects:
  2000

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  This study aims to better understand the impact of non-compliance with GINA therapeutic recommendations on healthcare use and on absenteeism of persistent asthmatic patients. It also identifies the characteristics of patients whose care is not in accordance with these recommendations and tests the economic impact of medical nomadism on the management of asthma in 2007 and 2008.
• Outcomes:
  To study the frequency of non-compliance with GINA recommendations and its potential impact on health care consumption and absenteeism in asthmatic patients. To study and compare the characteristics of patients, their health care consumption and nomadism in 2007 and 2008.
• Data analysis plan:
  A / Description of the general characteristics of the study population on 01/01/2007.B / Description of the components of the healthcare consumption and absenteeism in 2007 and 2008 for the entire population included.C / Study of the characteristics of the healthcare consumption and absenteeism of patients in 2007 and 2008 depending on the frequency of rescues CI in 2007.D / Study of the characteristics of the healthcare consumption and absenteeism in 2007 and 2008 patients who received BAILDA without CI in 2007.E / Study of the characteristics of the healthcare consumption and absenteeism in 2007 and in 2008 patients with high BAICDA rescues in 2007.