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Home-Visit Program May Improve Child's Asthma
MSN Health & Fitness 23 (HealthDay News) — A home-visit program for children with asthma reduced hospitalizations and emergency department visits, improved patient outcomes and saved $1.46 for every dollar spent, according to a new study. Researchers examined the impact … Quality improvement program helps asthma outcomes, saves $1.46 per dollar spent |
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Home-Visit Program May Improve Child's Asthma
The Female Fan 23 (HealthDay News) — A home-visit program for children with asthma reduced hospitalizations and emergency department visits, improved patient outcomes and saved $1.46 for every dollar spent, according to a new study. Researchers examined the impact … Quality improvement program helps asthma outcomes, saves $1.46 per dollar spent |
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Quality improvement program helps asthma outcomes, saves $1.46 per dollar spent
Healthcare Finance News BOSTON – A program that provides home visits and education for families with children living with asthma has shown to dramatically reduce hospitalizations for the condition, meanwhile saving $1.46 in care for every $1 spent on prevention. |
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Sorority launches asthma management program
Midland Daily News Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority has embarked upon a national multi-year campaign to educate the community about how to manage asthma through its Asthma Prevention and Management Initiative. The sorority will galvanize thousands of members who will fan out … |
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Clipboard: Children's asthma program improved health, reduced costs
Boston.com (blog) By Chelsea Conaboy, Globe Staff By addressing the triggers of childhood asthma in families' homes and coaching parents and children about how to use asthma medications, Children's Hospital Boston has significantly reduced emergency room visits and … Home visits for asthma patients cut hospitalizations Children's Hospital reports progress on asthma |
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Clinic employees say program was kick-start to better health
Plain Dealer As a longtime asthma sufferer, Jan Kodish enrolled in the chronic disease management program because she wanted to participate and benefit from it. Kodish, 56, is a secretary to a department chair at the Clinic's Lerner Research Institute. |
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Mississippi's Medicaid program adds coverage for Aerocrine's FeNO testing in …
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affects more than 300 million people worldwide, many of whom are children. FeNO is a marker of the underlying airway inflammation associated with asthma, and Aerocrine has developed a method … |
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Mississippi's Medicaid program adds coverage for Aerocrine's FeNO testing in …
MarketWatch (press release) Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affects more than 300 million people worldwide, many of whom are children. FeNO is a marker of the underlying airway inflammation associated with asthma, and Aerocrine has developed a method … |
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Civista honored for asthma care program
So Md News Civista Medical Center earned perfect scores for all three key measures of pediatric asthma care tracked by the Maryland Health Care Commission from March of last year through April 2011. Civista is the only hospital in Maryland that had a perfect … |
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Program teaches students how to manage asthma
Marietta Daily Journal Fourth-grader Grace Thornloe-Smith looks through illustrations of how asthma affects the body on Thursday morning. According to the Georgia Department of Community Health, an estimated 12 percent of children have asthma. … |
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