PEDIATRICS Vol. 104 No. 2 Supplement August 1999, pp. 378
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Purpose of the Study To improve asthma disease management, the National Asthma Education Program (NAEP) Expert Panel published Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in 1991. To compare the current status of asthma disease management among patients in a large health maintenance organization (HMO) with the NAEP guidelines and to identify the factors that may be associated with medical care (eg, emergency department visits and hospital admissions) and adherence to the guidelines.
Study Population
Analyses of 1996 survey data from 5580 members with asthma (age range,