Hopman W M, Owen J G, Gagne E
MacKenzie Health Services Research Unit, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Manag Care Interface. 1999 May;12(5):89-93.
Community asthma care centers have been introduced to meet the increasing need for community-based assessment, management, and education of patients with asthma. The Asthma Education Centre at Oakville-Trafalgar Hospital, in Ontario, Canada, has implemented a comprehensive assessment, treatment, and education program with a collection of relevant patient data. The findings presented in this article suggest that these specific education and treatment programs are associated with not only significant reductions in the use of health services, but improvements in health outcomes as well.
社区哮喘护理中心应运而生，以满足对哮喘患者进行基于社区的评估、管理和教育日益增长的需求。加拿大安大略省奥克维尔-特拉法尔加医院的哮喘教育中心实施了一项全面的评估、治疗和教育计划，并收集了相关患者数据。本文所呈现的研究结果表明，这些特定的教育和治疗计划不仅与大幅减少医疗服务使用相关，还与健康状况改善相关。
