Emergency Department as the Main Source of Asthma Care
| Autor: | Virginia Chung, Sunil Dhuper, Chang Shim, Diane Maggiore, Bahram Alavy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine Evening Inhaled corticosteroids Ambulatory Care Facilities Asthma care Health Services Accessibility Cohort Studies Treatment Refusal Adrenal Cortex Hormones Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Immunology and Allergy Anti-Asthmatic Agents Prospective Studies Medical prescription Hospitals Municipal Prospective cohort study Asthma business.industry Age Factors Emergency department Middle Aged medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Young age Utilization Review Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female New York City Medical emergency Emergency Service Hospital business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Asthma. 43:527-532 |
| ISSN: | 1532-4303 0277-0903 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02770900600857069 |
| Popis: | Many asthma patients use the emergency department (ED) as the sole source of asthma care. This is considered inadequate and poor practice. This prospective study revealed that young age, lack of evening clinic, forgetting to keep the appointment, conflicting priorities of daily life, and easy access to the ED on an as-needed basis for urgent care, medications, and prescriptions, and failure to use inhaled corticosteroids were significant while lack of insurance or access to asthma clinic were not significant factors in exclusive use of the ED. Establishing ED asthma education programs or an after hours asthma clinic may alleviate the practice. |
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