You are here

  • Home
  • Archive
  • Volume 7, Issue 3
  • A time limited, nurse led intervention reduced hospital readmissions in patients with asthma and a history of frequent admissions

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Treatment
A time limited, nurse led intervention reduced hospital readmissions in patients with asthma and a history of frequent admissions

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.7.3.76

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    Castro M, Zimmermann NA, Crocker S, et al. Asthma intervention program prevents readmissions in high healthcare users. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003;168:1095–9.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Q Does a time limited, nurse led intervention reduce hospital readmissions in patients with asthma and a history of frequent admissions?

    METHODS

    Embedded ImageDesign:

    randomised controlled trial.

    Embedded ImageAllocation:

    {concealed}*.

    Embedded ImageBlinding:

    unblinded.

    Embedded ImageFollow up period:

    1 year.

    Embedded ImageSetting:

    Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Missouri, USA.

    Embedded ImagePatients:

    96 patients 18–65 years of age (mean age 36 y, 83% women, 82% African-American) who were admitted to hospital with asthma exacerbation, had physician diagnosed asthma for ⩾12 months, forced expiratory volume in 1 second to forced vital capacity ratio <80%, and ⩾1 hospital admission in the previous 12 months.

    Embedded ImageIntervention:

    a 6 month, limited, nurse led intervention (suggestions to the primary physician to simplify or consolidate current regimens; completion of daily Asthma Care flow sheets; asthma education; psychosocial support and screening for counselling; follow up through telephone contact, home visits, and primary physician visits; individualised asthma self management plan; and …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • ↵* Information provided by author.

    • For correspondence: Dr M Castro, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA. castrommsnotes.wustl.edu

    • Source of funding: Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation.