Jocelyn Biagini Myers and colleagues have developed the Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS), a free online tool to assess the risk for asthma in young children.

“Asthma-prediction tools to date have, by and large, been binary”, said Myers, PhD, from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. “We wanted a simple, noninvasive tool that was a little more quantitative for families, researchers, and clinicians” she said.

Results from a comparison of the standard Asthma Predicative Index (API) and PARS were published in the American Thoracic Society 2019 International Conference in Dallas (J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2019;143:1803-1810.e2). (Medscape, May 15, 2019)