Understanding interventions delivered in the emergency department targeting improved asthma outcomes beyond the emergency department: an integrative review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The emergency department (ED) represents a place and moment of opportunity to provide interventions to improve long-term asthma outcomes, but feasibility, effectiveness and mechanisms of impact are poorly understood. We aimed to review the existing literature on interventions that are delivered in the ED for adults and adolescents, targeting asthma outcomes beyond the ED, and to code the interventions according to theory used, and to understand the barriers and facilitators to their implementation.

Methods

We systematically searched seven electronic databases and research registers, and manually searched reference lists of included studies and relevant reviews. Both quantitative and qualitative studies that reported on interventions delivered in the ED which aimed

SUBMITTER: Skene I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10407367 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature