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The SBAT Program represents “real world” implementation of an urban school-based asthma program as part of a QI initiative at a large tertiary care pediatric hospital. The initiative enrolled students with poorly controlled asthma ...

“In health services research, we get trained very differently,” says Kimberly Arcoleo, research professor in the College of Nursing. “We learn different skills, but they’re very complementary to the training nursing Ph.D.s get...

Asthma is one of the most common chronic illnesses of childhood, and hospitalization rates are on the rise. Asthma causes morbidity from ongoing and recurrent symptoms as well as impairment of quality of life and functional impairment... 

School-based provision of inhaled corticosteroids significantly improved symptoms, quality of life, and absenteeism among urban children with mild persistent to severe persistent asthma. This effect was seen only among children...

Directly observed administration of daily preventive asthma medications by school nurses (with dose adjustments according to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Expert Panel guidelines) and a home-based environmental tobacco smoke reduction program for smoke-exposed children... 

Dr. Noyes conceptualized and designed cost-effectiveness analysis, interpreted the results, drafted the initial manuscript, and approved the final draft as submitted; Ms Bajorska conducted the data analyses, helped interpret the results, assisted with drafting of the initial manuscript...

Poor adherence to recommended preventive asthma medications is common leading to preventable morbidity. We developed the School-Based Telemedicine Enhanced Asthma Management (SB-TEAM) program to build on school-based...