The Portuguese Severe Asthma Registry: Development, Features, and Data Sharing Policies

Table 3

RAG features useful to support severe asthma management.

Elements of chronic care management [36]	RAG features
	Current	Future
Ensure regular follow-up	Displays for each physician a list of their patients and date of the last medical appointment	Display a simple message with the counting the months since the last appointment and flag patients without medical review in more than 6 months
Facilitate individual patient care planning	For specified measurements, displays the information inserted in the last appointment and its progress over time	At the beginning of each follow-up appointments, a brief report of the previous appointment will be displayed
Embed evidence-based guidelines into clinical practice	has a decision support tool to identify patients treated in step 4 or 5 according to GINA recommendations
Monitor the performance of practice team	Displays aggregated data on the number of patients included by each center	Aggregated real-time data with different graphic displays of trends on specified management and clinical outcomes will be produced, to give a feedback to physicians about the status of the care of their patients and/or healthcare center, towards delivering the recommended care for severe asthma.