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Spiro PD Reduces ER Visits and Healthcare Costs
Albany Times Union It empowers patients with lung diseases – those with asthma, COPD, Cystic Fibrosis and lung transplants – to easily, accurately, and affordably monitor their lung function anytime and anywhere. It tracks lung function trends and can alert a patient of … |
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Home Health Visits Improve Health of Young Asthma Patients
OzarksFirst.com When a child is diagnosed with asthma, it becomes a family effort to create a healthy living environment. But home visits from medical staff can help patients be happier, healthier kids. Thomas Brown loves basketball – but two years ago, you wouldn't … |
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Asthma-related nurse visits are up in Wallingford; town offers house visits
Meriden Record-Journal It could be asthma. According to the town's health department, the incidence of child asthma has been growing, and the department is providing home visits to help parents find out some of the triggers that may be playing havoc with their children's … |
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Community Asthma Initiative creates home visits to children with severe asthma
KYTX Thomas' asthma was so bad, he missed school and often ended up in the hospital. In fact, asthma is one of the leading causes for school absence, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It's a major diagnosis in terms of pediatric chronic illness. |
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Home visits curb asthma attacks
Los Angeles Wave Newspapers Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us how home visits from medical staff can help families curb asthma triggers in the home. 1 Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language. 2 Don't Threaten or Abuse. |
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 American Medical News |
FDA weighs prescriptions without medical visits
American Medical News The new model of drug distribution being considered by the FDA would allow some drugs for chronic conditions, such as asthma and allergies, to be sold under “conditions of safe use,” a proposed category that would describe prescription drugs sold over … FDA drug proposal risks patient health Expanding over-the-counter medications a bad idea Should Pharmacists Prescribe Prescription Medications? |
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 Family Practice News Digital Network |
Airborne Pollens and Asthma-Related ED Visits Coincide
Family Practice News Digital Network ORLANDO – Asthma-related visits to emergency departments spike in the spring, when grass and tree pollen levels are at their highest, according to investigators in two separate studies presented here at the annual meeting of the American Academy of … |
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A Shining Example of Healthcare That Works: Home Visits for Asthmatic Kids
The Atlantic By Neil Wagner A study of the Community Asthma Initiative found that the seemingly expensive program more than paid for itself in reduced ER visits and hospitalizations. A program developed in Boston has the potential to make asthma a lot less … |
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Emergency Department Visits for Asthma in Children
Medscape The current recommendations regarding initiation of controller medications in children seen in the emergency department (ED) for exacerbation of asthma are confusing. For example, in the United States, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's … |
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Home visits to kids with asthma improve outcomes
Nurse.com A program called the Community Asthma Initiative has demonstrated the potential to dramatically reduce hospitalization and ED visits by children with asthma. The program, developed and implemented by clinicians at Children's Hospital Boston, … |
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