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The effect of a patient education program on emergency room use for inner-city children with asthma.

M C Shields, K W Griffin and W L McNabb

Department of Medicine, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60616.

An educational program for children with asthma designed to reduce emergency room (ER) use enrolled all eligible children (n = 253 primarily low-income Black) within a health maintenance organization (HMO) who had used the hospital or ER for asthma during the pre-enrollment period and randomized them into two groups. Twenty-four of the experimental group patients had 55 ER visits and 18 of the control patients had 39 ER visits during the first 12 months post-intervention. This program did not achieve its goal.

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