Acknowledgements
The EAACI Adolescent and Young Adult Task Force would like to thank
Paula Sands for her advice with the literature search; Paula Fernandez
for generating the logo; Marina Atanaskovic-Markovic, Barbara
Ballmer-Weber, Knut Brockow, Helen Brough, Adam Fox, Karin
Hoffmann-Sommergruber, Chrissie Jones, Antti Lauerma, Liam O’Mahony,
Donald Payne, Joaquin Sastre, Jurgen Schwarze, Terry Segal, Isabel
Skypala, Gunter Sturm, Ingrid Terreehorst, Maria Jose Torres and
Eva-Maria Varga for their constructive, expert review of the draft
guidelines; Susanne Halken, Mary Jane Marchisotto, Glenis Scadding and
Emilia Vassilopoulouon for reviewing the guideline on behalf of EAACI
Guidelines Committee; the EAACI Methodology Committee for their expert
feedback; all the EAACI members who commented on the draft guideline via
the public web site; Ana Antunes for her assistance and EAACI for
funding the generation of the guideline. We would like to thank Millie
Basu, Lea Blum, Anna Borushko, Davide Caimmi, Antoine Deschildre,
Amandine Divaret-Chauveau, Anastasiya Kolotilina, Sarah Lyons, Sonia
Martin-Pereda, Maura Pedrini and Lea Tammen, for assisting in generating
different language versions of the adolescent and parent survey. We
would like to thanks the following for distributing the survey:
Federasma e Allergie Onlus; Associazione Respiriamo Insieme;
Associazione Laziale Asma e Malattie Allergiche (ALAMA); Associazione
Liguri Allergici (ALA); Associazione Asma Sardegna Onlus; Cibo Amico
Associazione per le Allergie Alimentari e l’Anafilassi; Associazione
Nazionale Dermatite Atopica (ANDeA); Associazione Food Allergy Italia;
APS Chiara Ribechini; Uniamo Federazione Italiana Malattie Rare onlus,
Ari-aaa3 ONLUS; Società Italiana di Allergologia e Immunologia
Pediatrica (SIAIP); Società Italiana di Allergologia; Asma e Immunologia
Clinica (SIAAIC); Montserrat Alvaro, Jaime Lozano, Joan Bartra,
Fundación Humans, Fundación Lovexair, Edryx Healthcare; patients and
parents from the pediatric allergy unit of the University Hospital Vall
d’Hebron, Barcelona; patients and parents from Centre Mèdic del Berguedà
and Gabinet Mèdic del Berguedà, Berga, Barcelona; Institut Vescomtat de
Cabrera, Hostalric; Institut Blanca d’Anjou, El Perelló; Societat
Catalana d’Al·lergologia i Immunologia Clínica (SCAIC); Sociedad
Española de Inmunología Clínica y Alergología Pediátricas (SEICAP);
Sociedad Española de Alergología e Inmunología Clínica (SEAIC); Lara
Pimenta; Mário Morais Almeida; Andre Moreira (EAACI SPC Chair),
Portuguese Association of Asthmatics; Deutscher Allergie- und Asthmabund
(DAAD) (Sabine Schnadt), Mönchengladbach, Germany; Daniel Munblit; Maria
Kardakova; ‘Аллергомамы’, ‘АтД по-доказательному’ (Anna Taranova);
Danish patient organization; Asthma Allergy Denmark; Nederlands
Anafylaxis Netwerk; Allergy UK (Carla Jones); Anaphylaxis Campaign
(Lynne Regent); Hilary Allen; Aideen Byrne; John Fitzsimons; Antoine
Deschildre; Amandine Divaret-Chauveau; “Association Asthme et
Allergies” (Christine Rolland); “AFPRAL” (Pascale Couratier); Elena
Bradatan; Virginie Doyen; and Swiss patient organization. Finally we
would like to thank all the patients and parents who completed the
survey. The systematic review of the generic adolescent and young adult
data were undertaken by Ekaterina Khaleva as part of her Allergy MSc
(University of Southampton).