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Area of Science:

  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • Evidence-Based Practice

Background:

  • The efficacy of physiotherapy for adult asthma is debated, with conflicting recommendations across clinical practice guidelines.
  • Discrepancies exist between the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA 2011) and the British Thoracic Society/Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Respiratory Care (BTS/ACPRC 2009) guidelines regarding physiotherapy for asthma.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the agreement between GINA 2011 and BTS/ACPRC 2009 guidelines on physiotherapy interventions for adult asthma.
  • To assess the methodological quality and agreement in evidence selection between these two major guidelines.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation (AGREE II) instrument to assess guideline rigor.
  • Employed the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) tool and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale for quality assessment of systematic reviews and trials.
  • Compared reference lists to determine overlap in included primary and secondary studies.

Main Results:

  • No agreement was found in the selection of source research articles between GINA and BTS/ACPRC guidelines.
  • Only two studies were common to both guidelines; GINA's exclusion of BTS evidence was attributed to lack of clarity.
  • Independent investigators rated BTS/ACPRC higher than GINA across all AGREE II domains.

Conclusions:

  • Significant differences in content and development processes necessitate guideline updates or directing GINA readers to the more comprehensive BTS/ACPRC guideline for asthma physiotherapy.
  • The BTS/ACPRC guideline offers a more specific and thorough approach to physiotherapy interventions in adult asthma.