Key Clinical Activities for Quality Asthma Care: Recommendations of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program

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• Alternative Title:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, March 28, 2003 / Vol. 52 / No. RR-6: Key Clinical Activities for Quality Asthma Care: Recommendations of the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports
• Personal Author:
  Redd, Stephen C. ; Schmidt, Diana K. ; Storms, William ; Williams, Seymour G.
• Description:
  The National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP), administered and coordinated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, began developing a consensus set of science-based guidelines for diagnosis and management of asthma shortly after its establishment in 1989. With wide participation of asthma specialists from academia, research, and clinical care, as well as representatives from voluntary health organizations and federal agencies, the first Expert Panel Report: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma was produced in 1991; a revision, the EPR-2, was published in 1997, and an update to the EPR-2 was published in 2002. The EPR-2 and EPR--Update 2002 comprise the prevailing science-based consensus concerning accurate information for health-care providers regarding asthma diagnosis and management. The EPR-2 has been disseminated nationwide and abstracted into a practical guide, a best practices pediatric guide, and a pocket guideline. However, although these asthma care principles have been widely endorsed, they have not been adequately applied. This report is a companion to the NAEPP Expert Panel Reports. It identifies a core set of 10 key clinical activities essential for ensuring that health care delivered to patients with asthma emphasizes the prevention aspect of care and addresses the components of care recommended in the Expert Panel Reports. The action steps listed for each key clinical activity suggest specific ways to accomplish the respective activity. The process of developing a core set of key clinical activities involved a detailed review of the EPR-2 guidelines and input from persons researching their implementation. These activities were identified in the context of the currently proposed asthma-specific measures for managed care, as well as the national health goals of Healthy People 2010 and the strategic plan of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Action Against Asthma. These reports complement each other to help health-care professionals, policymakers, patients, and the public work together to improve asthma care for the overall population and reduce asthma-related morbidity and mortality. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  This is a duplicate version of another record. This record contains Descriptive and Administrative metadata specific to the contributions of staff from the CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Diagnosis Education Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Lung Diseases Occupational Health Respiratory Function Tests Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Respiratory-system-disorders; Spirometry; Diagnostic-techniques; Diagnostic-tests; Bronchial-asthma; Pulmonary-function-tests; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Lung-disorders; Education; Medical-examinations; Medical-monitoring; Medical-treatment
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, 2003; v. 52, no. 6
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987 (print) ; 1545-8601 (digital)
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  12 pdf pages
• Volume:
  52
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20022770
• Citation:
  MMWR Recomm Rep 2003 Mar; 52(RR-6):1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/248464/cdc_248464_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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