The Electronic Asthma Management System (eAMS) improves primary care asthma management.

ABSTRACT: A high prevalence of suboptimal asthma control is attributable to known evidence-practice gaps. We developed a computerised clinical decision support system (the Electronic Asthma Management System (eAMS)) to address major care gaps and sought to measure its impact on care in adults with asthma.This was a 2-year interrupted time-series study of usual care (year 1) versus eAMS (year 2) at three Canadian primary care sites. We included asthma patients aged ≥16 years receiving an asthma medication within the last 12 months. The eAMS consisted of a touch tablet patient questionnaire completed in the waiting room, with real-time data processing producing electronic medical record-integrated clinician decision support.Action plan delivery (primary outcome) improved from zero out of 412 (0

SUBMITTER: Gupta S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6482383 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature