Severe Asthma Super-Responders Delphi Exercise

Study type

• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Disease epidemiology

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Other
• Non-interventional study design, other:
  Delphi exercise

Study drug and medical condition

• Medical condition to be studied:
  Asthma

Population studied

• Age groups:
  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  118

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  Define an international consensus-based definition of a ‘super-responder’ using a Delphi process and targeting health care professionals in multiple countries who treat severe asthma.
• Data analysis plan:
  Summary statistics for continuous variables will include: Sample size (n), Mean/standard deviation, Range (minimum – maximum), Median and Inter-quartile range. Summary statistics for categorical variables will include Sample size (n), range (if applicable), count and percentage by category (distribution). Descriptive statistics on demographic characteristics will be provided for continuous and categorical variables.