Clinic navigation and home visits to improve asthma care in low income adults with poorly controlled asthma: Before and during the pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Asthma-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency visits are more numerous among low-income patients, yet management guidelines do not address this high-risk group's special needs. We recently demonstrated feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary evidence of effectiveness of two interventions to improve access to care, patient-provider communication, and asthma outcomes: 1) Clinic Intervention (CI): study staff facilitated patient preparations for office visits, attended visits, and afterwards confirmed patient understanding of physician recommendations, and 2) Home Visit (HV) by community health workers for care coordination and informing clinicians of home barriers to managing asthma. The current project, denominated "HAP3," combines these interventions for greater effectiveness,

SUBMITTER: Apter AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9973549 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature