Evaluation of the Asthma Action Plan Initiative

As part of the implementaion of these recommendations, the members of the Pediatric Asthma Work Group worked together and with others in their prospective states to develop an easy-to-use standard form for written pediatric asthma action plans. The objective was to devlop a single form that could be endorsed by a spectrum of public and private health care organizations and made avalable at no cost to physicians and other providers caring for children with asthma. Working off a similar template, a standard Pediatric Asthm Action Plan form was adopted statewide and disseminated in 2001 in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, reaching thousands of providers, as well as families and school nurses in many cases.

In 2003, NEPHMCC completed an evaluation of the asthma action plan, working in collaboration with Massachusetts Health Quality Partners, the Rhode Island Department of Health and the Connecticut Department of Public Health. This evaluation focused on the extent to which the asthma action plan was incorporated and institutionalized into practice in the three participating states, on ways that the asthma action plan has improved asthma management for children, and on ways that the action plan can be improved.

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Index of Appendices

Appendix B: Summary of findings from the focus group with Connecticut school nurses

Appendix C: Summary of findings from Connecticut physicians.

Appendix D: Summary of findings from survey of Rhode Island physicians.

Appendix E: Summary of findings from surveys of Rhode Island school nurse teachers.

Appendix F: Summary of findings from surveys of Massachusetts clinicians.

Appendix G: Summary of findings from interviews with Massachusetts school nurses.