Non-Interventional Study to Describe the Clinical Management in Asthmatic Patients (NICMA)

A non-Interventional, descriptive, cross-sectional and unicentric study, has been designed and will be conducted in a Spanish hospital of Málaga. The design of the study imposes an only visit to be performed to obtain the patient's signed IC and after signing it (if patient agreed to participate in the study. Except for this study visit, the rest of study will be based on electronic medical chart review of approximately 300 asthma patients belonging the influential area of Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria. This chart review will be performed by the site investigator or collaborators.

The data collection is stated in 6 months, and during this period the investigators will identify and randomly include the patients who meet selection criteria to avoid bias during patient's inclusion. The observational period will be conformed of 12 months, and the patient's data will be collected or documented in an electronic case report form (eCRF), which will automatically create or assign an identification numerical code to every patient the moment it's created in the electronic platform. This system guarantees the anonymization of each patient included in the study as no identifiable information won't be able to be captured.

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with written informed consent prior to participation.
• Patient female or male ≥ 18 years of age
• Patient with asthma diagnosis more than one year before the study inclusion
• Clinical data available at least 1 year before the study inclusion in the electronic medical records.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient's participation in any clinical trial during the year prior to the index date for data collection.