The process of producing the yearly updates began with a Pub Med search using search fields established by the Committee: 1) asthma, All Fields, All ages, only items with abstracts, Clinical Trial, Human, sorted by Authors; and 2) asthma AND systematic, All fields, ALL ages, only items with abstracts, Human, sorted by Author. In addition, peer-reviewed publications not captured by Pub Med could be submitted to individual members of the Committee providing an abstract and the full paper were submitted in (or translated into) English. All members of the Committee received a summary of citations and all abstracts. Each abstract was assigned to two Committee members, and an opportunity to provide an opinion.
