Promoting best-care practices in childhood asthma: Quality improvement in community health centers

Pediatrics

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-28

  Lob, Sibylle H ^a,b   Boer, Jennifer Holloman ^a,b   Porter, Patricia G ^a,b   Núñez, David ^a,b   Fox, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b California Asthma Public Health Initiative   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Care coordination; Continuous quality improvement; Evidence based practice; Guideline adherence; Health disparities; Pediatrics; Quality of care; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ASTHMA; CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT;

EID: 79959999878     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2010-1962     Document Type: Article

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