Using Computers to Assist in the Treatment of Asthma in a Pediatric Setting

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Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

This study seeks to improve physician adherence to four recommendations of the NHLBI asthma treatment guidelines: 1. Improve case detection of asthma among patients with pulmonary symptoms, 2. Grade all asthma patients asthma, identifying those with persistent versus intermittent asthma, 3. Improve rates of use of controller medications - particularly inhaled steroids - among patients with persistent asthma, 4. Provide an asthma treatment plan for all asthma patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01312805

Run by

Indiana University

People needed

2098

Starts

2005-07-01

Expected to finish

2008-07-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-14

Who can join

Age: 3 and older, up to 11. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Families who visit the Wishard/IUMG Primary Care Center (PCC) pediatric clinic are eligible for our study. Families are randomly assigned to either the control or intervention group, where they will remain for the study's duration. No blocking or other methods of stratification are used. There are no additional exclusion criteria. Data collection will occur for a minimum of 6 months and not to exceed two years

Where it is running

• Wishard Primary Care Center — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

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