Leveraging Electronic Health Records for Guideline-Based Asthma Documentation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Asthma is the most common pediatric chronic disease; thus, clinical guidelines have been developed for its assessment and management, which rely on systematic symptom documentation. Electronic health records (EHR) have the potential to record clinical data systematically; however, variability in documentation persists.

Objective

To identify if the use of a structured asthma template is associated with increased guideline-based asthma documentation and clinical outcomes when compared with the use of nonstructured ones.

Methods

We performed a retrospective case-control study comparing the use of nonstructured templates (NSTs) and asthma-structured templates (ASTs) in new patient and first follow-up encounters, evaluated by pediatric pulmonologists between Mar

SUBMITTER: Landeo-Gutierrez J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10851708 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature