Enablers of Physician Prescription of a Long-Term Asthma Controller in Patients with Persistent Asthma

Table 3

Resources that support physician’s prescription of, and patient’s compliance to, long-term inhaled corticosteroids (ICS).

Enablers	physician’s comfort to prescribe long-term ICS	patient adherence to long-term ICS	Access to service	Interest in computerised system to identify access delay
	Adjusted proportion  (95% CI)	Adjusted proportion (95% CI)	Adjusted proportion (95% CI)	Adjusted proportion (95% CI)
Patient’s asthma education	65 (59, 71)	95 (93, 98)	86 (80, 90)	67 (62, 73)
Finding the closest asthma education centre	—	—	—	81 (77, 86)
Lung function tests for school-aged children/adults	70 (64, 76)	71 (65, 76)	97 (95, 99)	70 (65, 76)
Lung function tests for preschoolers	68 (62, 74)		47 (38, 56)
Concurrent opinion from a specialist	71 (65, 77)	62 (57, 66)	96 (93, 98)	70 (65, 76)
Frequent follow-up visits	—	66 (60, 71)	—	—
Asthma clinic to refer patients	78 (73, 83)	—	60 (53, 67)	71 (65, 72)
Paramedical healthcare professional
To guide patient in the treatment plan	78 (73, 83)	92 (88, 95)	—	—
Available on site to provide asthma education	76 (70, 81)	—	52 (46, 58)	—
To share patient follow-up	—	—	57 (50, 63)	—

Values are reported as “adjusted proportion” of high endorsement, that is, 4 or 5 on the Likert scale, after adjustment for the stratified sampling of physicians by specialty, that is, weighting responses to reflect the distribution of physicians in the Province of Quebec using weights of 91.0% for family physicians, 7.6% for pediatricians, and 1.4% for emergency physicians.
Values are reported as “adjusted proportion” of those that declared access, adjusted for the stratified sampling of physicians by specialty, as described above by.
Lung function testing for any age group.
Including nurses, certified asthma educators, pharmacists, and respiratory technicians.