title: Managing asthma care.
abstract: This activity is designed for physicians, medical directors, and healthcare policy makers.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide the reader with the tools needed to monitor and manage the care of all enrollees with asthma.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  1. Become familiar with a health maintenance organization (HMO)-wide data collection system. 2. Learn the essential elements of asthma care for patients. 3. Learn how to track the implementation of these elements in various HMO settings.
authors.affiliation: Asthma Consultants, Amherst, MA 01002, USA.
authors.forename: T F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Plaut
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000628:therapy*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004496:Education, Continuing; D004864:Equipment and Supplies; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States