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The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities

Asthma is a serious chronic lung disease with a significant economic burden. The population of the San Bernardino County Juvenile Detention and Assessment Centers have higher odds of asthma as compared to the general population. Research has shown that a significant number of patients with a prior h...

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Autores principales: Toledanes, Yvette D, Tran, Louis, Lara, Jocelyn, Injijian, Natali, Neeki, Arianna, Dong, Fanglong, Mejia Aguilar, Marina D, Borger, Kylee, Neeki, Michael M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7968705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33747652
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13351
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author Toledanes, Yvette D
Tran, Louis
Lara, Jocelyn
Injijian, Natali
Neeki, Arianna
Dong, Fanglong
Mejia Aguilar, Marina D
Borger, Kylee
Neeki, Michael M
author_facet Toledanes, Yvette D
Tran, Louis
Lara, Jocelyn
Injijian, Natali
Neeki, Arianna
Dong, Fanglong
Mejia Aguilar, Marina D
Borger, Kylee
Neeki, Michael M
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description Asthma is a serious chronic lung disease with a significant economic burden. The population of the San Bernardino County Juvenile Detention and Assessment Centers have higher odds of asthma as compared to the general population. Research has shown that a significant number of patients with a prior history of asthma were misdiagnosed. A protocol using objective testing, along with the detailed patient's history, was successfully implemented to verify the diagnosis and guide more effective medical care. After the implementation of those steps, the prevalence of asthma was found to be lower with the new protocol, from 18.1% in the pre-protocol period to 11.2% in the post-protocol period. This decrease resulted in an associated reduction in both direct and indirect healthcare costs and more efficient medical care.
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spelling pubmed-79687052021-03-19 The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities Toledanes, Yvette D Tran, Louis Lara, Jocelyn Injijian, Natali Neeki, Arianna Dong, Fanglong Mejia Aguilar, Marina D Borger, Kylee Neeki, Michael M Cureus Pediatrics Asthma is a serious chronic lung disease with a significant economic burden. The population of the San Bernardino County Juvenile Detention and Assessment Centers have higher odds of asthma as compared to the general population. Research has shown that a significant number of patients with a prior history of asthma were misdiagnosed. A protocol using objective testing, along with the detailed patient's history, was successfully implemented to verify the diagnosis and guide more effective medical care. After the implementation of those steps, the prevalence of asthma was found to be lower with the new protocol, from 18.1% in the pre-protocol period to 11.2% in the post-protocol period. This decrease resulted in an associated reduction in both direct and indirect healthcare costs and more efficient medical care. Cureus 2021-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7968705/ /pubmed/33747652 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13351 Text en Copyright © 2021, Toledanes et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Pediatrics
Toledanes, Yvette D
Tran, Louis
Lara, Jocelyn
Injijian, Natali
Neeki, Arianna
Dong, Fanglong
Mejia Aguilar, Marina D
Borger, Kylee
Neeki, Michael M
The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities
title The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities
title_full The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities
title_fullStr The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities
title_short The Impact of Quality Improvement Measures in the Management of Asthma Patients in Juvenile Detention Facilities
title_sort impact of quality improvement measures in the management of asthma patients in juvenile detention facilities
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7968705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33747652
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13351
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