Hawaii medical journal
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Hawaii medical journal · Apr 2004
A community-based asthma management program: effects on resource utilization and quality of life.
The Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) developed an integrated community-based asthma management program in an effort to reduce inappropriate medical utilization and improve quality of life in their pediatric asthma population. ⋯ The community-based asthma management program demonstrated success in improving utilization patterns and reducing asthma-related expense among program participants. Improvement was also noted in quality of life as expressed through frequency and time of asthma symptoms. Other health care institutions may also be positively impacted by developing multidisciplinary team implemented, culturally-adapted, and scientifically-based disease management programs.