Effects of a comprehensive school-based asthma program on symptoms, parent management, grades, and absenteeism

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Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1674-1679

  Clark, Noreen M ^a   Brown, Randall ^b   Joseph, Christine L M ^c   Anderson, Elizabeth W ^a   Liu, Manlan ^a   Valerio, Melissa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Childhood asthma; Morbidity; Randomized controlled trial; School performance; School based education; Urban children

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NIGHT; PARENT; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; RECORDING; SCIENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TELEPHONE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442494907     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.125.5.1674     Document Type: Article

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