TY - JOUR T1 - Nurse-led asthma education and childhood asthma readmission rates JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 278 LP - 278 DO - 10.1136/adc.81.3.278f VL - 81 IS - 3 AU - RAVI AGARWAL AU - ZULF MUGHAL AU - JAN ANDERTON AU - JANE BROADY Y1 - 1999/09/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/81/3/278.14.abstract N2 - 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 … ER -