Title

Assessing an Asthma Care Intervention at Optimus Health Care

Authors

Mari Armstrong-Hough
Louis Gregory
Yang Zhang
Alix Pose
Janneane Gent
Debbie Humphries, Yale University
Colette Matysiak

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Description

In the summer of 2015, the East Main Street branch of Optimus Health Care planned, developed, and initiated a quality improvement interven-tion for pediatric asthma care. The intervention consisted of a provider-designed EMR template to enhance asthma clinic visits, a new on-site spi-rometer, and new tools for patient and staff education. The objective was to support Optimus providers in their efforts to provide high quality, guideline-compliant care to their patients and thereby improve patient outcomes. A chart audit of 27 patient records conducted six months after the beginning of the project found high rates of compliance with two im-portant measures of quality asthma care: spirometer use (85% of charts) and documentation of an asthma action plan (96% of charts.)

Publication Date

Spring 2016

Publisher

Yale University School of Public Health

City

New Haven, CT

Keywords

Asthma, Optimus Health Care

Disciplines

Public Health

Recommended Citation

Armstrong-Hough, Mari; Gregory, Louis; Zhang, Yang; Pose, Alix; Gent, Janneane; Humphries, Debbie; and Matysiak, Colette, "Assessing an Asthma Care Intervention at Optimus Health Care" (2016). Practice Based Community Health Research Reports. 11.
https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/ysph_pbchrr/11