Specialist nurse intervention to reduce unscheduled asthma care in a deprived multiethnic area: the east London randomised controlled trial for high risk asthma (ELECTRA).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether asthma specialist nurses, using a liaison model of care, reduce unscheduled care in a deprived multiethnic area.

Design

Cluster randomised controlled trial.

Setting

44 general practices in two boroughs in east London.

Participants

324 people aged 4-60 years admitted to or attending hospital or the general practitioner out of hours service with acute asthma; 164 (50%) were South Asian patients, 108 (34%) were white patients, and 52 (16%) were from other, largely African and Afro-Caribbean, ethnicities.

Intervention

Patient review in a nurse led clinic and liaison with general practitioners and practice nurses comprising educational outreach, promotion of guidelines for high risk asthma, and ongoing clinical support. Control

SUBMITTER: Griffiths C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC314511 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature