title: Asthma as a Comorbidity in Hospitalized Patients: A Potential Missed Opportunity to Intervene.
abstract: Asthma is a frequent comorbidity in hospitalized children and adults. Patients with a history of asthma may have no breathing complaints or abnormal chest exam findings to trigger care for this comorbidity during hospitalization. Consequently, this may lead to a potential missed opportunity to discuss asthma as a comorbidity and ongoing issue to ensure its optimal management at home. Our goal is to raise awareness that such patient encounters may represent opportunities for health care professionals to optimize asthma management. Despite focusing on the present illness and limited time availability, asthma care may be improved in a time-efficient manner in these patients.
authors.affiliation: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA Methodist University Hospital/UTHSC, Memphis, TN, USA tself@uthsc.edu.
authors.forename: Timothy H
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Self
authors.affiliation: Methodist University Hospital/UTHSC, Memphis, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Ryan E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Owens
authors.affiliation: Methodist University Hospital/UTHSC, Memphis, TN, USA.
authors.forename: Jimmie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mancell
authors.affiliation: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Milap C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Nahata
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013997:Time Factors
keywords: asthma; comorbidities; intervention