Management of Asthma Among Community-Based Primary Care Physicians
| Autor: | Ross T. Tsuyuki, Don D. Sin, Heather M. Sharpe, Robert L. Cowie, Carolyn Nilsson, S.F. Paul Man, null For the Alberta Strategy to Help Ma |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Community based Spirometry medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Population Asthma treatment Primary care Emergency department medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases immune system diseases Current practice Family medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Emergency medicine medicine Immunology and Allergy business education Asthma |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Asthma. 42:163-167 |
| ISSN: | 1532-4303 0277-0903 |
| Popis: | Background. Despite significant improvements in asthma treatment and the dissemination of national and international guidelines for asthma management, there are ongoing concerns that suboptimal care is being provided for patients with asthma. Objective. To determine the current practice patterns of asthma care among primary care physicians. Design. A cross-sectional study. Setting. Province of Alberta, Canada (population: 3 million people). Participants. Patients, 5 years of age or older, who had a physician's diagnosis of asthma, and had at least two visits for asthma between 1996 and 2001. Measurement and Results. Charts of 3072 distinct patients (from 45 unique primary care physicians) were reviewed. Previous emergency department visits or hospitalizations were experienced by 20% of the sample. A total of 25% of patients had documented evidence that they had performed spirometry. More than half of the patients had no documented evidence that they had received any form of asthma education; only 2% of th... |
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