Primary Care Pathway for Childhood Asthma: Protocol for a Randomized Cluster-Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children. For many, the disease is inadequately controlled, which can burden the lives of children and their families as well as the health care system. Improved use of the best available scientific evidence by primary care practitioners could reduce the need for hospital care and improve quality of life and asthma control, thereby reducing overall costs to society and families.

Objective

The Primary Care Pathway for Childhood Asthma aims to improve the management of children with asthma by (1) providing primary care practitioners with an electronic guide (a clinical pathway) incorporated into the patient's electronic medical record, and (2) providing train-the-trainer education to chronic disease management health pr

SUBMITTER: Cave AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4804104 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature