Table 4.

Development and purpose of the questionnaires.

	Developed by	Purpose
ACT	Primary care clinicians/ leading asthma specialists	Brief patient-based assessment of asthma control
C-ACT	Asthma specialists	To assess asthma control in children aged 4–11 years with asthma, for use in the clinic and at home (self-administered)
ACQ	Clinicians (members of international asthma guideline committees)	To measure asthma control as defined by international guidelines, minimize symptoms and reduce the risk of exacerbations
APGAR	Primary care clinicians	To address the gap in the primary care management of asthma
NAEPP	NAEPP expert panel developed clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma	No information
RCP3Q	Consensus from a multidisciplinary seminar	Practical tool to assess asthma control in primary care
VAS	Designed to document the characteristics of disease-related symptom severity in individual patients.	Unstructured method of estimating disease severity; rapid, statistically measurable and reproducible classification of symptom severity and disease control