Abstract
Severe asthma imposes a significant burden on patients, families and healthcare systems. Management is difficult, due to disease heterogeneity, comorbidities, complexity in care pathways and differences between national or regional healthcare systems. Better understanding of the mechanisms has enabled a stratified approach to the management of severe asthma, supporting the use of targeted treatments with biologicals. However, there are still many issues that require further clarification. These include selection of a certain biological (as they all target overlapping disease phenotypes), the definition of response, strategies to enhance the responder rate, the duration of treatment and its regimen (in the clinic or home‐based) and its cost‐effectiveness. The EAACI Guidelines on the use of biologicals in severe asthma follow the GRADE approach in formulating recommendations for each biological and each outcome. In addition, a management algorithm for the use of biologicals in the clinic is proposed, together with future approaches and research priorities.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 14-44 |
Number of pages | 31 |
Journal | Allergy |
Volume | 76 |
Issue number | 1 |
Early online date | 2 Jun 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2021 |
Bibliographical note
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Agache, I., Akdis, C., Akdis, M., Canonica, G.W., Casale, T., Chivato, T., Corren, J., Chu, D.K., Del Giacco, S., Eiwegger, T., Flood, B., Firinu, D., Gern, J.E., Hamelmann, E., Hanania, N., Hernández‐Martín, I., Knibb, R., Mäkelä, M., Nair, P., O13037Mahony, L., Papadopoulos, N.G., Papi, A., Park, H.‐S., Pérez de Llano, L., Pfaar, O., Quirce, S., Sastre, J., Shamji, M., Schwarze, J., Palomares, O. and Jutel, M. (2020), EAACI Biologicals Guidelines – Recommendations for severe asthma. Allergy. Accepted Author Manuscript., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/all.14425. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.Keywords
- GRADE
- biologicals
- cost-effectiveness
- guidelines
- severe asthma