Association of Asthma Exacerbation Risk and Physician Time Expenditure With Provision of Asthma Action Plans and Education for Pediatric Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide information about factors underlying provision of asthma action plans (AAPs) to a minority of pediatric patients with asthma, assess whether risk of exacerbation acts on provision of AAP and asthma education directly, suggesting targeting to highest-risk patients, or indirectly by influencing physician-patient interaction time.

Methods

This study was a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of a nationally representative sample of physician office visits that consisted of patients aged 2 to 18 years with asthma. Exacerbation risk comprised proxy indicators of control and severity. Direct and time-mediated effects of exacerbation risk on provision of AAP and education were calculated from logistic regression models.

Results

Asthma action plans were

SUBMITTER: Afolabi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8939274 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature