Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Asthma in adolescents and adults" and "Society guideline links: Occupational asthma".)

International

●Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA): Global strategy for asthma management and prevention, update (2020)

●GINA: Difficult-to-treat and severe asthma in adolescents and adults patients – Diagnosis and management (2019)

●World Health Organization (WHO): Allergy rhinitis and its impact on asthma (ARIA) guidelines, 2016 revision (published 2017)

•WHO: Allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma (ARIA), revision (2010)

●GINA and Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD): Diagnosis of disease of chronic airflow limitation – Asthma, COPD and Asthma-COPD overlap syndrome (ACOS) (2015)

●International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG): Position paper on ten easy steps to defeat difficult-to-manage asthma (2013)

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM): Task force report on what the pulmonary specialist should know about the new inhalation therapies (2011)

Canada

●Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS): Position statement for the recognition and management of severe asthma (2017)

●CTS: Guideline on the diagnosis and management of asthma in preschoolers, children and adults, update (2012)

United States

●National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI): A report from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program Coordinating Committee (NAEPPCC) Expert Panel Working Group – Focused updates to the asthma management guidelines (2020)

•NHLBI and NAEPP: Expert panel report 3 – Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma (2007)

●American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) and American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI): Management of acute loss of asthma control in the yellow zone ─ A practice parameter (2014)

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS): International guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma (2014)

Europe

●European Respiratory Society (ERS)/American Thoracic Society (ATS): Guideline for the management of severe asthma (2019)

●ERS/ATS: International guidelines on definition, evaluation and treatment of severe asthma (2014)

●European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI): Position statement on asthma exacerbations and severe asthma (2013)

●ERS/International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM): Task force report on what the pulmonary specialist should know about the new inhalation therapies (2011)

United Kingdom

●British Thoracic Society (BTS)/Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN): British guideline on the management of asthma (2019)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma (2018)

●NICE: Quality standard on asthma (2013, updated 2018)

Australia-New Zealand

●Centre of Excellence in Severe Asthma: Severe asthma toolkit (2019)

●National Asthma Council Australia (NACA): Australian Asthma Handbook (2019)

●Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR): Guideline on first aid for asthma (2016)

Japan

●Japanese Society of Allergology (JSA): Japanese guidelines for adult asthma (2014, updated 2017)