Evaluating a Multidisciplinary Approach for the Management of Severe Asthma in the New York City Borough of the Bronx: The Montefiore Asthma Center Experience

Evaluating a Multidisciplinary Approach for the Management of Severe Asthma in the New York City Borough of the Bronx: The Montefiore Asthma Center Experience

Methods Through our institution’s EMR, we identified patients with physician-diagnosed asthma and with an asthma ED visit and/or hospitalization in the year before the initial (‘index’) outpatient asthma visit. MAC cases received multidisciplinary care (joint management by Allergists, Pulmonologists...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2018-02, Vol.141 (2), p.AB97-AB97
Hauptverfasser: Abraham, Ryan, Patel, Jalpa, Cobden, David, Jariwala, Sunit P.
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Sprache:eng
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Asthma
Hospitalization
Telemedicine
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Zusammenfassung:Methods Through our institution’s EMR, we identified patients with physician-diagnosed asthma and with an asthma ED visit and/or hospitalization in the year before the initial (‘index’) outpatient asthma visit. MAC cases received multidisciplinary care (joint management by Allergists, Pulmonologists, and an asthma educator), while controls received PCP-based asthma management and nurse-delivered remote outreach (three monthly asthma education phone calls).
ISSN:0091-6749
1097-6825
DOI:10.1016/j.jaci.2017.12.309