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  • Title: Adherence and morbidity following emergency department care among inner-city children with asthma.
    Author: Kunkov S, Crain EF.
    Journal: J Asthma; 2010 Jun; 47(5):545-50. PubMed ID: 20560828.
    Abstract:
    OBJECTIVES: To explore the utility of two measures, Risk for Nonadherence (RN) and Admitted Nonadherence (AN), developed in a national sample of children with chronic asthma, for predicting short-term morbidity among children following a pediatric emergency department (PED) visit for acute asthma and to compare verbal and self-completion of these measures. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Prospective cohort study of children 3 to 11 years of age presenting to a PED with an acute asthma exacerbation. Caretakers were randomized to self-completion of a questionnaire assessing RN and AN or to verbally respond to the same questionnaire administered by a research assistant. Five asthma morbidity indicators were collected at 2, 4, and 8 weeks following discharge from the PED. RESULTS: One hundred fifty-four patients were enrolled. There were no significant differences in asthma severity, RN, or AN, or the number of items missing on questionnaires between the self-completion and verbal administration groups. Patients with a RN score >4 had an adjusted odds of 3.67 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.57-8.58) for waking >2 nights due to asthma symptoms. The adjusted odds of patients with any AN to report needing >4 days of rescue asthma medication was 3.16 (95% CI 1.37-7.26). CONCLUSION: RN and AN were both associated with morbidity indices following an acute asthma exacerbation and can identify children at risk for increased short-term morbidity regardless of the method of questionnaire administration. Assessment of RN and AN by self-administered questionnaire during an ED visit for asthma maybe feasible.
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