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Nurse-led asthma education and childhood asthma readmission rates
  1. RAVI AGARWAL,
  2. ZULF MUGHAL
  1. Department of Paediatric Medicine
  2. Saint Mary’s Hospital for Women & Children
  3. Hathersage Road, Manchester M13 0DQ, UK
  4. Children’s Asthma Centre
  5. Rusholme Health Centre
  6. Walmer Street, Manchester M14 5 NP, UK
    1. JAN ANDERTON,
    2. JANE BROADY
    1. Department of Paediatric Medicine
    2. Saint Mary’s Hospital for Women & Children
    3. Hathersage Road, Manchester M13 0DQ, UK
    4. Children’s Asthma Centre
    5. Rusholme Health Centre
    6. Walmer Street, Manchester M14 5 NP, UK

      https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.81.3.278f

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        Editor,—Wesseldine and colleagues showed a significant decrease in asthma readmission rates in children whose parents received 20 minutes of structured asthma education before their child was discharged from hospital.1

        In October 1992, a community based, nurse-led, children’s asthma service was established in Central Manchester, UK with the aim of informing and empowering asthmatic children and their parents to undertake day to day management of asthma through a structured education programme.2 Over a third of the educational encounters take place in the patient’s home. Parents and teenagers …

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