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The effect of a patient education program on emergency room use for inner-city children with asthma

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  • Shields, M.C.
  • Griffin, K.W.
  • McNabb, W.L.

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An educational program for children with asthma designed to reduce emergency room (ER) use enrolled all eligible children (n = 253 primarily low-income Black) within a health maintenance organization (HMO) who had used the hospital or ER for asthma during the pre-enrollment period and randomized them into two groups. Twenty-four of the experimental group patients had 55 ER visits and 18 of the control patients had 39 ER visits during the first 12 months post-intervention. This program did not achieve its goal.

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  • Shields, M.C. & Griffin, K.W. & McNabb, W.L., 1990. "The effect of a patient education program on emergency room use for inner-city children with asthma," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 80(1), pages 36-38.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1990:80:1:36-38_7
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    1. Abeer Alatawi, 2017. "The Effectiveness of Asthma Education Approaches for Children: Group Versus Individual Education," Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, Biomedical Research Network+, LLC, vol. 1(3), pages 794-799, August.

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