Improving Asthma Outcomes in an Urban Pediatric Population

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

Little is known about how ED-based programs can help to reduce pediatric ED visits for asthma. The current study evaluated a novel intervention in which the ED itself became the site of highly individualized, comprehensive follow-up asthma care. It sought to determine if such an intervention could decrease subsequent unscheduled visits for asthma while improving asthma quality of life.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00140439

Run by

Stephen J. Teach, MD, MPH

People needed

488

Starts

2002-04-01

Expected to finish

2005-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-08-25

Who can join

Age: 1 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• age between 12 months and 17 years, inclusive;
• prior physician-diagnosed asthma;
• ≥1 other unscheduled visit for asthma in the previous 6 months and/or ≥1 hospitalization for asthma in the prior 12 months;
• a parent/guardian available for interview;
• residence in Washington, DC or a contiguous Maryland county; and
• requirement for ≥3 doses of nebulized albuterol in the ED at the time of enrollment.

You may not qualify if…

• significant medical co-morbidities affecting the cardiorespiratory system;
• a visit to an allergist or a pulmonologist in the prior 6 months;
• ≥2 of the following: a current written asthma medical action plan, current use of >1 controller medication, or a scheduled visit for asthma care with their PCP in the prior two weeks;
• enrollment in another asthma research study;
• unavailability for telephone follow-up; or
• primary language other than English or Spanish.

Where it is running

• Children's National Medical Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States

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