A computerized decision support tool to implement asthma guidelines for children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multicenter randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for asthma management that incorporate usual-care regimens could benefit from standardized application of evidence-based guidelines.

Objective

We sought to evaluate performance of a computerized decision support tool, the Asthma Control Evaluation and Treatment (ACET) Program, to standardize usual-care regimens for asthma management in RCTs.

Methods

Children and adolescents with persistent uncontrolled asthma living in urban census tracts were recruited into 3 multicenter RCTs (each with a usual-care arm) between 2004 and 2014. A computerized decision support tool scored asthma control and assigned an appropriate treatment step based on published guidelines. Control-level determinants (symptoms, rescue medicat

SUBMITTER: Kercsmar CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504600 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature