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Advanced Practitioner Provided Pre-Hospital Discharge Asthma Education, Lyndsay E. Gardner
Advanced Practitioner Provided Pre-Hospital Discharge Asthma Education, Lyndsay E. Gardner
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Asthma is a leading cause of pediatric hospital admissions. Parents of children under the age of 18 with asthma require education to recognize and manage the signs and symptoms of the disease. Parent education has shown to decrease their children's hospital admission and readmission rates. The purpose of this pilot project was to develop an asthma educational module for the parents of children with asthma and obtain parent feedback on the content. Families with children under the age of 18 who had been admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of asthma, an asthma exacerbation, or status asthmaticus were invited …
Guideline Use In Asthma Management In Primary Care Setting: A Systematic Review, Nkiru Ezeani Ezeani
Guideline Use In Asthma Management In Primary Care Setting: A Systematic Review, Nkiru Ezeani Ezeani
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Asthma is a chronic airway inflammatory disease that is characterized by reversible airway obstruction due to hyper-responsiveness of the tracheobronchial tree. The condition disproportionately affects male children, females, and the aged globally, and its prevalence keeps rising despite being a preventable condition in terms of relapse. Most asthmatic patients receive care in primary care settings. Various health agencies have developed asthma management guidelines to improve the quality of asthma care; however, in some cases, adherence to these guidelines is substandard. The overarching aim of this study was to determine whether primary care providers manage asthma in line with the available …