THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences & UBC Division of Respiratory Medicine
Respiratory Evaluation Sciences Program

Research Specific Projects

ECONOMIC BURDEN OF ASTHMA (EBA)

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EBA was a one-year, prospective study of a population-based random sample of 622 patients with asthma in British Columbia, with the main objective of estimating the burden of asthma in terms of its direct costs, indirect costs, and quality of life. EBA was funded by an arm's length peer-reviewed competition.

Link: EBA protocol

PUBLICATIONS:

Stability of asthma symptom control in a longitudinal study of mild–moderate asthmatics

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Complementary and alternative asthma treatments and their association with asthma control: a population-based study

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The preventable burden of productivity loss due to suboptimal asthma control: a population-based study

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The impact of comorbidities on productivity loss in asthma patients

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The projected economic and health burden of sub-optimal asthma control in Canada

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Asthma control and productivity loss in those with work-related asthma: a population-based study

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Saving in medical costs by achieving guideline-based asthma symptom control: a population-based study

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The additional burden of comorbidity along with asthma control on health-related quality of life in asthma

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Quality of life and asthma symptom control: room for improvement in care and measurement

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Interaction effect of psychological distress and asthma control on productivity loss in patients with asthma: a population-based study

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IMPLEMENTING PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS TOWARDS EFFICIENT COPD TREATMENTS (IMPACT)

IMplementing Predictive Analytics towards efficient COPD Treatments (IMPACT) is a CIHR-funded (Team Grant) project aimed at developing cutting-edge Precision Medicine tools for COPD, implementing them into Electronic Health Record systems, and evaluating their impact on quaity of care and outcomes in COPD.

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NOVEL OBSERVATIONAL LONGITUDINAL STUDY (NOVELTY)

NOVELTY is a prospective cohort study conducted from 2016-2021, with data from 11,243 patients across 18 countries. Individuals with a diagnosis, or suspected diagnosis, of asthma and/or COPD (including 1652 patients with severe asthma) were included in the study. NOVELTY contains a rich set of socio-demographic, clinical, and anthropometric patient data, including spirometry measurements, medication utilization, basic sociodemographic information, and health services use.

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EVALUATION PLATFORM IN COPD (EPIC)

EPIC is a comprehensive epidemiologic and decision-analytic model for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in Canada.

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ACUTE COPD EXACERBATION PREDICTION TOOL (ACCEPT)

The Acute COPD Exacerbation Prediction Tool (ACCEPT) is a validated clinical prediction model that predicts rate and severity of COPD exacerbations.

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PRISM: PROGRAMMABLE INTERFACE FOR STATISTICAL & SIMULATION MODELS

PRISM is a platform that makes decision-analytics and clinical prediction models accessible on the cloud. PRISM enables end-users to intract with the model they are interested in, without worrying about having the required hardware resources, or setting up complex code on their computer.

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EHEALTH TOOLS FOR PRECISION MEDICINE IN COPD

This CIHR-funded project aims at devloping and validating prediction tools for precision disease management for COPD, and implementing such tools as Web Apps to be freely accessible to the patient and care provider community.

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NATURAL HISTORY AND PATTERNS OF MEDICATION USE IN ASTHMA

This project, sponsored by an arm's length reserch contract with AstraZeneca Canada, harnesses population-based administrative health databases of British Columbia to update our esitmates of the recent trends in medication use in asthma. The emphasis of this project is on the use of short-acting beta agonists and systemic corticosteroids and how their pattern of use is evolving in patients with asthma.

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PRECISION HEALTH IN CHILDHOOD AND ADULT ASTHMA

This is an exciting multidiciplinary project on Precision Health in children and adult asthma. This project has spon off from our lab's involvement in a major Genome Canada grant (PI: [Dr. Stuart Turvey](https://bcchr.ca/our-research/researchers/results/Details/stuart-turvey)). We plan to develop Whole Disease Policy models for childhood and adult lung health and provide rigorous decision-theoretic lens to biomarker discovery activities that target lung health in children and adults.

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SEE ALSO

THEME

Describes the main theme used (Asthma, COPD, methodological research).

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METHODOLOGY

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