Clustered randomised trial of an intervention to improve the management of asthma: Greenwich asthma study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the effectiveness of an asthma resource centre in improving treatment and quality of life for asthmatic patients.

Design

Community based randomised controlled trial.

Setting

41 general practices in Greenwich with a practice nurse.

Subjects

All registered patients aged 15-50 years.

Intervention

Nurse specialists in asthma who educated and supported practice nurses, who in turn educated patients in the management of asthma according to the British Thoracic Society's guidelines.

Main outcome measures

Quality of life of asthmatic patients, attendance at accident and emergency departments, admissions to local hospitals, and steroid prescribing by general practitioners.

Results

Of 24 400 patients randomly selected and surve

SUBMITTER: Premaratne UN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27864 | biostudies-literature | 1999 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature