Study protocol of a prospective, interventional non-randomised trial investigating the impact of asthma education on specific disease understanding, health literacy and therapy outcome in childhood.

Introduction: Childhood asthma is a highly prevalent chronic disease. A failure to implement patient education programmes may result in increased morbidity, despite the availability of distinct diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Patients with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to have a higher asthma prevalence.

Comparison of six disease severity scores for allergic rhinitis against pollen counts a prospective analysis at population and individual level.

Background: Many different symptom (medication) scores are nowadays used as measures of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis severity in individual patients and in clinical trials. Their differences contribute to the heterogeneity of the primary end-point in meta-analyses, so that calls for symptom (medication) score harmonization have been launched.

Objective: To prospectively compare six different severity scores for allergic rhinitis (AR) against pollen counts at both population and individual levels.