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AAP Grand Rounds 2:66-67 (1999)
© 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics

COMBINED INTERNAL MEDICINE - PEDIATRICS

Educational Program Improves Asthma Care for High-Risk Patients

Source: George MR, O’Dowd LC, Martin I, et al. A comprehensive educational program improves clinical outcome measures in inner-city patients with asthma. Arch Intern Med. 1999; 159:1710–16.

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In a randomized study, 77 patients with asthma who were admitted through the emergency room (ER) were provided with either a multi-disciplinary inpatient educational program (IEP) or routine care. This intervention at the inner city hospital of the University of Pennsylvania targeted indigent adult (ages 18 to 45) patients. The IEP included intensive asthma education as an inpatient, bedside spirometry, a phone call 24 hours after discharge, and follow-up in an outpatient asthma clinic one week after discharge. Patients who received the IEP . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John G. Frohna, MD, FAAP
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI