Asthma Express: Bridging the Emergency to Primary Care in Underserved Children

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Conditions studied: Asthma

In brief

Asthma is the number one cause of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits in young minority children and is responsible for high healthcare costs. The ED is often the point of contact for many inner city children and many families view the ED as the child's primary source of asthma care. This study plans to test a new model of asthma care, Asthma Express (AEx), that includes a follow-up asthma visit in the ED for an asthma "check-up" , asthma education, a prescription for preventive asthma medications, an appointment for the child to see their pediatric provider and a home visit to assist families with environmental control methods to prevent asthma symptoms.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01981564

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

222

Starts

2013-04-15

Expected to finish

2018-02-28

Last updated by the study team

2019-03-06

Who can join

Age: 3 and older, up to 12. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• asthma diagnosis,
• age 3 to 12 years,
• two or more ED visits or one hospitalization for asthma within past 12 months, -working phone

You may not qualify if…

• other respiratory chronic disease such as Cystic Fibrosis or Bronchopulmonary dysplasia

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Hospital Pediatric Emergency Department — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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