Pursuing Perfection: An Asthma Quality Improvement Initiative in School-Based Health Centers with Community Partners

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Association of Schools of Public Health

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This article describes an innovative asthma quality improvement initiative conducted in school-based health centers (SBHCs) with collaboration among multiple community partners including the children's hospital, a federally qualified health center, the health department, the public school, and parents of children with asthma. The aim was to improve the health of children with asthma in these schools, as measured by minimal asthma-related activity restriction and reduction in asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits. Process measures tracked included the percent of children with (1) asthma severity classified, (2) persistent asthma with controller medication prescribed, and (3) written care plans.

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