@article{9178c84bca574ec0937b3328adb9a74a,
title = "Application of an algorithm to analyse patterns of intermittent oral corticosteroid use in asthma",
abstract = "An algorithm to describe patterns of intermittent oral corticosteroid use in the UK (n=476,167) found that one-third of patients receiving intermittent oral corticosteroids for asthma only had short gaps (frequency pattern was more likely in patients with greater asthma severity and with more short acting β2-agonist use at baseline. Our approach may provide a clinically relevant representation of intermittent oral corticosteroid use in asthma.",
author = "John Haughney and Tran, {Trung N} and Heath Heatley and Arnaud Bourdin and Andrew Menzies-Gow and Jackson, {David J} and Ekaterina Maslova and Jatin Chapaneri and Derek Skinner and Victoria Carter and {Shi Kai Chan}, Jeffrey and David Price",
note = "Acknowledgements This project is based in part/wholly on data from the Optimum Patient Care Research Database (opcrd.co.uk) obtained under licence from Optimum Patient Care Limited and its execution is approved by recognised experts affiliated to the Respiratory Effectiveness Group. However, the interpretation and conclusion contained in this manuscript are those of the authors alone. AstraZeneca funded the study and had a role in study design and data interpretation. The Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute had a role in study design and delivered the study protocol, data analysis, data interpretation and study report. The Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute received no funding for manuscript writing. The corresponding author had full access to all the data and had final responsibility to submit for publication. We would like to thank Sam Hijazi and Stefan Courtney for providing medical writing support, which was funded by AstraZeneca in accordance with Good Publication Practice (GPP3) guidelines (http://www.ismpp.org/gpp3).",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "30",
language = "English",
journal = "npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine",
issn = "2055-1010",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}