Project information
Asthma Attack - Targeting Emergency Asthma Contacts in Children
Key dates
Start Date: October 2001
Expected Date of Completion: September 2004
Expected Date of Completion: September 2004
Budget
195,354.80
Key contacts
Project Contact: Dr James Paton
Lead Grantholder: Dr James Paton, Dept of Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill NHS Trust, Glasgow G3 8SJ
Aims and objectives
The main aims of the project are to:
- Determine whether children presenting with asthma attacks can be identified and labelled correctly while in the emergency department
- Determine whether the emergency department asthma attendance can be used to provide guideline-based individualised advice and feedback to parents, their GPs and practice nurses about attack management and prevention following the emergency contact, with a view to facilitating the family s return to the scheduled asthma management in primary care
- Determine whether such feedback and advice reduces subsequent asthma morbidity and subsequent emergency health care attendances for asthma.