Asthma Cycle of Care attendance: Overcoming therapeutic inertia using an asthma clinic

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 318-320

  Byrnes, Patrick ^a,b   McGoldrick, Colleen ^b   Crawford, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSQTC ^*

Author keywords

Asthma; General practice; Health services; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ASTHMA; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUEENSLAND; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77957233869     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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