Barriers to Effective Asthma Care in Inner City General Practice
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Factors associated with preventive asthma care in inner-city children.
The goal of this cross-sectional study was to determine if the caregiver's quality of life was associated with the child receiving appropriate preventive asthma care (2 or more preventive asthma care visits per year) in a sample of inner-city children with moderate to severe persistent asthma. Our findings confirm that children with moderate to severe persistent asthma are not receiving adequat...
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متن کاملReported difficulties in access to quality care for children with asthma in the inner city.
OBJECTIVE To characterize perceived access and barriers to quality health care for asthma among the caregivers of children in the inner city. DESIGN Multicenter, cross-sectional survey. SETTING Eight sites in 7 major metropolitan US inner cities. PARTICIPANTS A systematic sample of children with asthma, aged 4 to 9 years, and their caregivers who resided in census tracts in which at least...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of General Practice
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1381-4788,1751-1402
DOI: 10.3109/13814789809160796