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October 6, 2009 | Program Result
A research team from the University of Michigan School of Public Health expanded the Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) project, which it had developed in the 1990s.
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Current research shows that patients with less health literacy have worse health outcomes, but understanding the true impact of health literacy may require a detailed analysis of its effects on other known determinants of outcome. This study of 175 ...
May 19, 2005 | Journal Article
The risk of invasive pneumococcal disease among persons with asthma is unknown. An estimated 7 percent of Americans suffer from asthma and as the prevalence of this disease increases, its association with pneumococcal disease becomes more important. ...
February 23, 2004 | Journal Article
Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are increasingly prominent causes of hospitalization and death, not only in America, but across the world. Differences in the incidence of these diseases across genders and the life cycle sugge ...
April 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Parents of children with asthma need to learn a great deal about the disorder in order to manage it successfully. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has recommended that all members of a pediatric health care team become involved in the e ...
January 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This study examines the effects of asthma on influenza incidence in children.
December 1, 2001 | Program Result
Innovative Medical Research developed and tested three research tools that provide the foundation for a planned asthma intervention appropriate for use in managed care organizations.
March 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Improving Performance in Practice (IPIP) provides small, primary-care practices with tools, support, coaching and a collaborative learning environment in which they can assess their performance and engage systematically in improvement activities. Th ...
November 12, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation of Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) consisted of a survey of 63 project directors in order to define the specific managed care competencies and related patient care tasks that residence program directors expected residents to learn as a result of the new training.
November 5, 2006 | Story
"The Clinical Scholars Program provided me with a rigorous background in research methodology that was crucial," says Flores.