Child Asthma Risk Assessment Tool

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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This web-based tool is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The program is designed to identify individual asthma triggers and provide pediatric asthma patients and their families with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively manage their asthma and reduce asthma-related morbidity. The toolkit requires a web browser for viewing.

Achieving Better Care for Asthma: A BCAP Toolkit

This Toolkit offers a structured approach for addressing quality improvement and a collection of "lessons learned" by a diverse group of health plans serving Medicaid members. Whether your health plan intends to develop a new asthma management program or is seeking to improve an existing program, this toolkit offers practical, realistic approaches. The report is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader.

Improving Asthma Care for Children Toolkit: Best Practices in Medicaid Managed Care

This toolkit provides strategies to improve asthma care tested by a diverse group of health plans serving Medicaid consumers. The inventive methods, targeted for children with asthma, can also be used for adults. The toolkit was developed by the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. The toolkit is available as a PDF, requiring Adobe Reader.

Clinical Care Guidelines: Asthma

This asthma guideline and the accompanying patient education and other materials can assist physicians in providing optimal care for patients in a cost-effective manner. The guideline focuses on important clinical decisions and actions in the context of overall case management. It is based on empirical evidence, other evidence-based guidelines prepared by nationally recognized groups, and expert consensus about practical considerations in providing care. The tool was developed by the University of Michigan Health System. The tool is available as several PDFs, requiring Adobe Reader.

Improved Treatment of Asthma

The hospital created a multidisciplinary team to develop an improved protocol for asthma patients in the emergency department (ED). The result was the addition of a dedicated respiratory therapist in the ED for asthma patients along with a new standard of care for these patients in order to prevent return ED visits and reduce hospital length of stay. The report is available as a PDF (requiring Adobe Reader), and includes necessary forms and supporting documents.

Child Asthma Risk Assessment Tool

This web-based tool is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The program is designed to identify individual asthma triggers and provide pediatric asthma patients and their families with the knowledge and tools necessary to effectively manage their asthma and reduce asthma-related morbidity. The toolkit requires a web browser for viewing.

AHRQ Quality Indicators™ Toolkit for Hospitals

The Quality Indicators Toolkit for Hospitals was developed by AHRQ. The toolkit was designed for hospitals in helping them understand Quality Indicators and how to use them in order to advance quality of care and patient safety. The focus of the toolkit is on the 17 Patient Safety Indicators and the 28 Inpatient Quality Indicators. The toolkit is available as a PDF, required Adobe Reader.

General principles for the diagnosis and management of Asthma

The Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium designed these guidelines in order to attain significant, significant improvements in the management of asthma through the development and implementation of common evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, that are focused on important management components of asthma to improve outcomes. The toolkit is available as a web page or as a PDF and requires a web browser or Adobe Reader to view it.
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