Introduction. One of their main aspects in the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma is maintaining adequate control over the course of the disease.The aim: to assess the level of control, the causes of the uncontrolled course of the disease and the quality of life in patients with severe bronchial asthma.Materials and methods. The study involved 160 patients with severe bronchial asthma taking basic anti-inflammatory therapy. The assessment of adherence to baseline therapy was assessed by questionnaires of patients with a modified Morisky-Green questionnaire and a test to assess adherence to inhalers (TAI). A quality of life questionnaire for patients with bronchial asthma (AQLQ) was used to assess quality of life.Results. It was revealed that all patients had reported daily symptoms and a daily need for short acting beta-agonists; 96.6% of the patients enrolled in the study had night awakenings and physical activity restriction. The survey of patients with the help of the Morisky-Green questionnaire showed that deliberate low adherence to therapy was noted in 45.6% of cases, which was formed due to inattention to the hours of medication – 67.1% and missing the drug in good health in 47.9% of patients. Low motivation and low awareness of their disease is recorded in 24.4% of patients.Conclusions. All patients did not achieve control of the disease. In half of patients with severe asthma, there is low deliberate adherence to basic anti-inflammatory therapy, which is formed mainly by missing the drug in good health and inattention to the hours of medication. Asthma symptoms have the greatest impact on the patient’s emotional state, physical activity, and overall quality of life.

Background: Hypertension, defined as a systolic blood pressure ≥140 mmHg and/or diastolic pressure ≥90 mmHg, is one of the most common chronic diseases (prevalence is 29.0% among adults) and is part of the Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC). In most cases, hypertension is considered a secondary diagnosis because complications that could result from the disease are the reasons why patients with hypertension are admitted to the hospital and Emergency Department (ED). Thereby, preventive approaches are integral in the management of these complications and access to primary care along with continuity are considered to be crucial components of preventive medicine. Hypothesis: We assess the hypothesis that increased access to primary care and continuity of care can reduce ED visits along with hospitalization rates in patients with hypertension. Methods: We reviewed articles from years 2005 to 2019 from peer reviewed journals. All publications were written in English and were mostly from the United States. However, we also included studies from other countries for comparison. We identified 2115 articles in total: 784 from Science Direct, 687 from Pubmed and 644 from Google Scholar, using these keywords: Hypertension, Hospitalization, Emergency Department, Primary care, Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions. Based on the titles, we investigated abstracts of 198 potentially relevant articles. Abstracts were rated independently by each member of the pair of reviewers and scored for relevance (relevant/ non-relevant). The second step was to have the full text of the remaining studies (n = 146) reviewed by the same team to check whether papers met inclusion criteria. Through this process, 96 studies were excluded. A total of 50 studies remained and were included in our systematic review. Results: From 50 research articles that were included; 38 studies showed statistically significant (p < 0.05) finding that increased access to primary care and its continuity decreases hospitalizations and/or ED admissions in patients with hypertension, 8 studies did not find statistically significant association between these factors. 4 studies showed statistically significant conclusion that general or family physicians as PCPs decrease hospitalization and ED admission rate in comparison with specialist physicians as PCP. Conclusion: We concluded that increased primary care access and its continuity are associated with a statistically significant decrease in the incidence of hospitalizations and/or ED visits for patients with hypertension.