The effect of a patient education program on emergency room use for inner-city children with asthma - PubMed (original) (raw)

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

M C Shields et al. Am J Public Health. 1990 Jan.

Abstract

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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