Asthma Best Practices
In a process beginning in March 2008, Massachusetts nurses and doctors came together, facilitated by the Asthma Regional Council and University of Massachusetts Lowell, to discuss the urgent need for action to reduce the burden of asthma. We work in hospitals, large and small practices, community health centers and schools.
Some of us are primary care practitioners; others are specialists, program directors and researchers. Taking into account the recent update of the National Asthma Management Guidelines and our experience with a range of programs to support patients in keeping their asthma under control, and with particular focus on the disproportionate impact of asthma on low income people and racial and ethnic minorities, we concurred that immediate steps by institutions paying for and providing care must occur to more widely implement best practices and begin to reverse the asthma epidemic.
Some of us are primary care practitioners; others are specialists, program directors and researchers. Taking into account the recent update of the National Asthma Management Guidelines and our experience with a range of programs to support patients in keeping their asthma under control, and with particular focus on the disproportionate impact of asthma on low income people and racial and ethnic minorities, we concurred that immediate steps by institutions paying for and providing care must occur to more widely implement best practices and begin to reverse the asthma epidemic.
