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The validation of the Turkish version of Asthma Control Test

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The Turkish version of the Asthma Control Test is a valid and reliable tool for assessing asthma control in patients in outpatient settings and may facilitate the designation of asthma patients’ symptoms as either controlled or uncontrolled.
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Introduction Current guidelines focus more on levels of asthma control than on severity of asthma. The original version of the Asthma Control Test (ACT), a self-administered instrument to determine asthma control levels, was designed for English-speaking patients. More recently, the ACT has been translated into many languages and has been validated for many cultures, but this is the first study to evaluate the Turkish version.

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Development and validation of a questionnaire to measure asthma control

TL;DR: The Asthma Control Questionnaire has strong evaluative and discriminative properties and can be used with confidence to measure asthma control.
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Asthma Control Test: Reliability, validity, and responsiveness in patients not previously followed by asthma specialists

TL;DR: The reliability and validity of the Asthma Control Test is evaluated in a longitudinal study of asthmatic patients new to the care of an asthma specialist, finding a cutoff score of 19 or less identifies patients with poorly controlled asthma.
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The minimally important difference of the Asthma Control Test.

TL;DR: Predictive analyses showed that a difference of 3 points on the ACT was associated with a subsequent 76% increased risk (95% CI, 73% to 79%) of excess short-acting beta-agonist use and a 33% increase risk of exacerbations.
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