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Inhalation February 2025 37 (C-ACT) most likely because their assessment methods failed to take into account the child's exacerbation history." "When exacerbation occurrence is not specifically addressed, chil- dren's asthma control is over- estimated, placing them at risk for future exacerbations," the researchers concluded. "Includ- ing exacerbations is an import- ant component in developing the [Pediatric Asthma Impairment and Risk Questionnaire] Peds- AIRQ as a combined impairment and risk tool." References Content for this article was based on, excerpted and quoted from: • Murphy K, Chipps B, and Lanz M, et al. Parents/caregiv- ers, physicians, and symptom- based assessments overestimate asthma control for children aged 5 to 11 years. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunol- ogy. R171 133 (6) Supplement, S57-S58, November 2024. www.annallergy.org/article/ S1081-1206(24)00740-3/full text#:~:text=Conclusion,com b i n e d % 2 0 i m p a i r m e n t % 2 0 and%20risk%20tool. • Goldberg, R. Asthma control in children often overestimated by parents and physicians. Pul- monology Advisor. October 29, 2024. www.pulmonology advisor.com/reports/asthma- c o n t ro l - i n - c h i l d re n - o f t e n - overestimated. White, 9% Black and 34% His- panic; 40% were insured by Med- icaid. Prior-year exacerbations were experienced by 47% of all children studied. Results Table 1 shows study results of estimated asthma control, divided into three subcategories (well- controlled, less than well- controlled and uncontrolled). e table also gives the percentages of children who experienced one or more asthma exacerbations in the previous year. Sources for the estimates were parents/caregiv- ers, physicians, the C-ACT and GINA criteria. Pulmonology Advisor indicated: e percentages for children esti- mated to have well-controlled asthma were: 70% according to parents/ caregivers 64% according to physicians 67% according to the C-ACT 47% according to the GINA criteria Overestimating asthma control causes risk e benchmark percentage for well-controlled asthma, acknowl- edged by the team at the outset of their study was 44%. erefore, the researchers stated that "children's asthma con- trol is overestimated by parents/ caregivers, physicians and the Childhood Asthma Control Test Source of estimation Children who had one or more exacerbations in previous year (%) Well-controlled asthma (%) Less well-controlled asthma (%) Uncontrolled asthma (%) Patients/Caregivers 27 70 26 4 Physicians 21 64 22 14 C-ACT 27 67 29 4 GINA 16 47 28 25 C-ACT = Childhood Asthma Control Test; GINA = Global Initiative for Asthma Table 1 Estimates of degree of asthma in children, aged 5-11 ADVERTISER INDEX B Biomerics 10 C Copley Scientific 3 D DDL 5 I Intertek Cover 2 M MSP 7 P Proveris 8 R RDD 1 S S-Matrix 9