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Allergen immunotherapy for asthma

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001186Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 20 October 2003see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:

  1. Cochrane Airways Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2010 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Michael J Abramson

    Correspondence to: Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Robert M Puy

    Respiratory Medicine, St Vincents Hospital, Fitzroy, Australia

  • John M Weiner

    Respiratory Medicine, St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Contributions of authors

Michael Abramson participated in the selection of studies, obtained papers reporting trials, wrote to authors, extracted data and entered it into RevMan for meta‐analysis and wrote the first draft of the results.

Robert Puy performed literature searches, participated in the selection of studies, performed quality assessments and checked some of the extracted data.

John Weiner participated in the selection of studies, performed quality assessments and wrote the first draft of the discussion.

All reviewers contributed to the protocol and approved the final version of the review.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • No sources of support supplied

External sources

  • Garfield Weston Foundation, UK.

Declarations of interest

None declared

Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Daniel Czarny, Rosa Dias Santilhiano, Andrei Saramovich, Fiona Savio, Georg Schäppi, Noortje Hamse, Brechje Gosens, Paul Angel and Alicia Stein‐Oakley for their assistance in translating studies published in languages other than English. The German Assistant (Microtac software) was used to translate papers published in German. David Hill kindly gave us access to the original data from his RCT of grass pollen immunotherapy in children with asthma. Betul Sin provided individual patient data from his RCT of immunotherapy with grass pollen and mite extracts. Jean Bousquet and Alicia Armentia provided methodological details of studies conducted by their groups. Steve Milan, Anna Bara and Karen Blackhall searched the Cochrane Airways Group database. David Badger and Vivienne Moore from the Australasian Cochrane Centre and Anna Bara provided helpful advice on the use of RevMan. Paul Montgomery read and approved the consumer synopsis.

Version history

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2010 Aug 04

Injection allergen immunotherapy for asthma

Review

Michael J Abramson, Robert M Puy, John M Weiner

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001186.pub2

2003 Oct 20

Allergen immunotherapy for asthma

Review

Michael J Abramson, Robert M Puy, John M Weiner

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001186

PICOs

Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

The PICO model is widely used and taught in evidence-based health care as a strategy for formulating questions and search strategies and for characterizing clinical studies or meta-analyses. PICO stands for four different potential components of a clinical question: Patient, Population or Problem; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome.

See more on using PICO in the Cochrane Handbook.