Korean Severe Asthma Registry (KoSAR)
What is severe asthma?
- Severe asthma is often defined as asthma requiring a high level of treatment to prevent it from becoming or remaining uncontrolled.
- Poor control of severe asthma is associated with frequent exacerbation, high medical costs, and mortality
- Even with vigorous research to understand severe asthma, neither an effective nor a comprehensive strategy has been determined to diagnose and treat severe asthma in clinical practice.
Korean Severe Asthma Registry (KoSAR)
- The Korean Working Group on Severe Asthma was established in 2009 by the members of the Korean Academy of Asthma, Allergy and Clinical Immunology (KAAACI), to study and understand severe asthma in order to find better strategy for severe asthma.
- The Korean Working Group on Severe Asthma is running the Korean Severe Asthma Registry (KoSAR) with collection of clinical data of patients with severe asthma.
Objective
- To define clinical characteristics and phenotypes of severe asthma in Korea in multicenter, prospective observational study design
- To estimate the burden of severe asthma and estimate treatment status of severe asthma in Korea
- To develop better strategy for management of severe asthma
| PI | Sub PI | Affiliation |
| Sung-Yoon Kang | Gachon University Gil Medical Center | |
| Young-Il Koh | Da-Woon Sim | Chonnam National University Hospital |
| Jae-Woo Kwon | Kangwon National University Hospital | |
| Mi-Ae Kim | CHA Bundang Medical Center | |
| Min-Hye Kim | Ji-Su Shim | Ewha Womans University Medical Center |
| Byung-Keun Kim | Korea University Anam Hospital | |
| Sang-Hoon Kim | So Young Park | Nowon Eulji Medical Center |
| So Ri Kim | Chonbuk National University Hospital | |
| Sujeong Kim | Kyungpook National University Hospital | |
| Joo-Hee Kim | Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital | |
| Young-Hee Nam | Dong-A University Hospital | |
| Ji Yong Moon | Hanyang University Guri Hospital | |
| Choon-Sik Park | Jong-Sook Park | Soonchunhyang University Hospital Bucheon |
| Hae-Sim Park | Young-Soo Lee | Ajou University Hospital |
| Heung-Woo Park | Hye-Ryun Kang, Suh-Young Lee | Seoul National University Hospital |
| Ga-Young Ban | Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital | |
| Kyoung-Hee Sohn | Kyunghee University Hospital | |
| Min-Suk Yang | Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center | |
| Yeon-Mok Oh | Asan Medical Center | |
| Kwang-Ha Yoo | So-Young Park | Konkuk university Medical Center |
| Ho-Joo Yoon | Sang-Heon Kim | Hanyang University Seoul Hospital |
| Byung-Jae Lee | Samsung Medical Center | |
| Jae-Hyun Lee | Severance Hospital | |
| Chin-Kook Rhee | Hwa-Young Lee | Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital |
| Tae-Hoon Lee | Ulsan University Hospital | |
| An-Soo Jang | Soonchunhyang University Hospital Bucheon | |
| Yoon-Seok Chang | Bomi Seo | Seoul National University Bundang Hospital |
| Jae-Woo Jung | Chung-Ang University Hospital | |
| You Sook Cho | Tae-Bum Kim, Hyouk-Soo Kwon | Asan Medical Center |
| Hyun-Jung Jin | Yeungnam University Medical Center |
For investigators only: Click below to visit the Severe Asthma Registry Site
The Korean Working Group on Severe Asthma 