Asthma Home-Care Plans Shouldn’t Affect Payments, Study Finds – Bloomberg


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Asthma Home-Care Plans Shouldn't Affect Payments, Study Finds
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A common measure of how well hospitals treat children and teens with asthma is statistically meaningless and shouldn't be used to determine federal quality payments under the health-care law, a study found.
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Maryland Plans to End Health Disparities – Patch.com


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Maryland Plans to End Health Disparities
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"When you look at the African-American asthma rate, it's much higher than the white population's rate or when you look at the Asian Pacific Islanders' liver cancer rate, it's three times the rate of the population at large," said Cardin.
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US Moves to Reduce Health DisparitiesNational Journal
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Written plans effective for asthma control – UPI.com

Written plans effective for asthma control
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MONTREAL, March 26 (UPI) — Researchers in Canada say two written action plans — one for after seeing the doctor and one for after hospital treatment — control asthma in children. Dr. Francine Ducharme of the University of Montreal's Department of
Written plan helps children deal with asthma: studyMontreal Gazette

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Australia Asthma Action Plans

Asthma Action Plan Australia and Online Survey

The National Asthma Council Australia is currently in the process of updating our existing asthma action plan.

To assist us in fulfilling our commitment to create a practical resource that is simple for health professionals to use and for patients to follow, we would like to have your thoughts on the proposed new action plan.

From the The National Asthma Council Australia website:

An integral part of asthma management is the development of a Written Asthma Action Plan by the person with asthma and/or their carer together with their doctor. An asthma action plan helps the person with asthma and/or their carer recognise worsening asthma and gives clear instructions on what to do in response.

Once completed, print copies of the new action plan will available for order via the NAC website.

We will also have it available for download in colour or a black and white version for easy printing.

We would appreciate you taking the time to review the draft and provide your feedback via our online survey (Note: a full size image is available to view on the survey page).

If you are a GP or other health professional, please complete the questions here.

If you are a person with asthma or the parent/carer of someone with asthma, please complete the questions here.