Population-based asthma management produces dramatic cuts in ER visits, hospitalization.
Getting an asthma patient to comply with medication and lifestyle changes requires more than a one-size fits all strategy. This DM effort produced dramatic decreases in hospital and emergency room use after implementing a personalized assessment and goal planning approach in a small Medicaid population.
D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000628:therapy*; D019468:Disease Management; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D008484:Medicaid; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011159:Population Surveillance; D014481:United States