Statewide Asthma Learning Collaborative Participation and Asthma-Related Emergency Department Use.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Quality improvement (QI) efforts can improve guideline-recommended asthma care processes in the pediatric office setting. We sought to assess whether practice participation in an asthma QI collaborative was associated with decreased asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits.

Methods

A statewide network of practices participated in a pediatric asthma QI collaborative from 2015 to 2016. We evaluated asthma-related ED visit rates per 100 child-years for children ages 3 to 21 years with asthma, using the state's all-payer claims database. We used a difference-in-differences approach, with mixed-effects negative binomial regression models to control for practice and patient covariates. Our main analysis measured the outcome before (2014) and after (2017) the QI c

SUBMITTER: Harder VS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10494521 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature