Case Management and Quality Assurance to Improve Care of Inner-city Children With Asthma

American Journal of Diseases of Children

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 1988, Pages 748-752

  Wissow, Lawrence S ^a   Warshow, Michal ^a   Box, Jean ^a   Baker, Douglas ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; EDUCATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HOME CARE; HUMAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ASTHMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOME NURSING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAID; PARENTS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THEOPHYLLINE; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0023940012     PISSN: 0002922X     EISSN: 15383628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1988.02150070062026     Document Type: Article

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