Primary care clinician adherence with asthma guidelines: the National Asthma Survey of Physicians.

ABSTRACT: Background and objectives: Although primary care clinicians provide >60% of U.S. asthma care, no nationally representative study has examined variation in adherence among primary care groups to four cornerstone domains of the Expert Panel Report-3 asthma guidelines: assessment/monitoring, patient education, environmental assessment, and medications. We used the 2012 National Asthma Survey of Physicians: National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey to compare adherence by family/general medicine practitioners (FM/GM), internists, pediatricians and Community Health Center mid-level clinicians (CHC). Methods: Adherence was self-reported (n = 1355 clinicians). Adjusted odds of almost always adhering to each recommendation (≥75% of the time) were estimated controlling for

SUBMITTER: Akinbami LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6717679 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature