The Asthma Outcomes Monitoring System (AOMS) project was initiated in 1996. At that time, there were no well-validated comprehensive systems for tracking patient-based outcomes in adults with asthma. Thus, the primary mission of the AOMS was to develop a system that would provide information in support of the goals of asthma treatment, which had broadened beyond managing traditional clinical markers of disease severity to include a focus on the benefits of treatment in terms that are most meaningful to patients.

The AOMS represents a balance of the competing forces in measurement today: those of achieving both brevity and comprehensiveness in new tools. To that end, we used the best available short forms for measuring generic and asthma-specific functional health and well-being, and other concepts integral to the treatment of asthma. Thus, the adult AOMS programs draw on previously existing modules. Specifically, the AOMS adult program incorporates the SF-8 Health Survey to measure generic functional health and well-being and the ITG Asthma Short Form to measure asthma-specific functional health and well-being. These tools, developed over the past decade, are among the most widely used in patient-based assessment of health and health care.

The survey measures something very different from a physical examination or laboratory test. The AOMS measures how you view your health, what you can do and how you feel.

The development and validation of the AOMS was supported by the Joint Council of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (the JCAAI, which is sponsored by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American College of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology).

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