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The management of childhood asthma through care pathways

Article Abstract:

North Tyneside Healthcare NHS Trust is using a multidisciplinary care pathway process to manage asthma in children. The initiative began in the district general hospital, and meant parents and ward staff cooperating to draw up a multidisciplinary pathway which was used as a multidisciplinary care plan. Nurses and doctors monitor the pathway and record what care they have provided, while the child and family receive a personal management plan. The process has also been taken into the community, involving groups including health visitors, GPs and district nurses.

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The paediatric home-care team and the nurse-led asthma clinic

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A home care nurse describes an innovative program in England that combines care at a nurse-led clinic with home health care visits to help children cope with asthma.

United Kingdom, Services information, Specialty outpatient clinics, not elsewhere classified, All Other Outpatient Care Centers, Respiratory Therapy Clinics, Innovations, Services, Home nursing, Home care, Respiratory clinics

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Improving the management of asthma in under-fives

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An educational program to manage asthma and wheezing in young children in Leicestershire as part of aims to raise standards of community care, is examined.

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