Murphy et al. [ 36] conducted a study to implement asthma self-management skills through an education program in pregnant women with asthma in an antenatal clinic.
The decision to ultimately implement asthma prevention programmes, let alone choose between a unifaceted and a multifaceted approach, is not made easier with favourable [ 8, 9] and unfavourable [ 10, 11] reports on the effectiveness of prevention.
To improve quality of life, functional status, and self-management behavior of asthma patients, a large health maintenance organization (HMO) in California implemented an asthma management program in 1996.
Our findings support ongoing efforts to implement effective asthma management and patient education interventions.
The HEAL intervention was modeled after the intervention used in NCICAS (Evans et al. 1999) in which the asthma counselor helped the caretaker to communicate with the child's school nurse, primary care provider, and others involved in caring for the child to develop and implement an asthma action plan individualized to the child.
The goal of this article is to use qualitative implementation data to assess (1) the influence of these settings on the structure of care coordination activities, (2) the strengths of implementing care coordination for asthma in a given setting, and (3) the primary challenges that arise.
We studied the ability of patients to recognize the severity of asthma, implement SC therapy, and seek timely help from a health-care provider (HCP).
Our goal was to develop and implement a pediatric asthma tracking system for emergency departments in a 5 county southeastern Wisconsin region.
Ask the school's administrator if they have implemented school-based asthma management activities.
This will allow implementing preventive actions to reduce asthma exacerbations, improve clinical outcomes, increase quality of life, and reduce healthcare cost.
