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NACI Investigators Share Experiences
For many patients with asthma and their health care providers, the road to effective asthma care can be bumpy and rough. Thanks to the dedicated efforts of 28 projects funded by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI), we have gained valuable knowledge about how to get health care professionals, patients, and others to follow six key actions (based on the NAEPP's clinical practice guidelines) that can chart a smoother course toward asthma control.
NACI projects spent two years (and in some cases longer) putting the guidelines into practice in "real-world" settings.
What did they find?
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GIP in Focus
Quality Improvement: The Importance of Feedback
 What helps physicians put asthma guidelines into practice? Real–time feedback on how well they deliver guidelines–based asthma care.
That's one of the valuable lessons learned by four quality improvement projects
funded
by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP)
National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI). The projects—led by the
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology; American Board of
Family Medicine; Medical Society of Virginia Foundation; and University
of Washington—used customized feedback to accelerate
physicians' use of the six key actions for improving asthma care and control according to the NAEPP's clinical practice guidelines.
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NACI Partner Profile
- Long wait times
- Transportation limitations
- Language barriers
 These are the types of challenges that some children and families face
when referred outside their primary care medical home for spirometry,
an objective measure of lung function. For patients with asthma ages 5
and up, the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) clinical practice guidelines recommend spirometry to assess asthma severity and monitor asthma control, two of six key actions that the NAEPP has identified as critical to the improvement of asthma control and care.
That's why Boston's Dorchester House Multi-Service Center ("Dorchester House")—a community-based organization providing an array of health and social services for a racially and ethnically diverse patient population—took a bold step with funding and technical assistance through the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program's (NAEPP) National Asthma Control Initiative (NACI).
Dorchester House brought spirometry testing in-house.
Through its NACI-funded Spirometry Integration Project, Dorchester
House sought to increase its patients' access to spirometry testing
within the primary care setting, with the aim of improving the overall
quality of asthma care they received. As a result, the project has made
spirometry part of its pediatric asthma visits, an important step
forward for the 1,200 primarily low-income, minority children with
asthma that Dorchester House serves.
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Events and Training Calendar
Excellence in Paediatrics
2012 Convention
November 28-December 1, 2012
Madrid, Spain
Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs
Annual Conference
February 9-12, 2013
Washington, DC
National Association of Secondary School Principals
2012 Conference: Ignite February 28-March 2, 2013
Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center,
National Harbor, MD
Trainings
American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology
Webinar: ASTHMA IQ for Primary Care
American School Health Association
Webinar: School-based Asthma Management
National Environmental Education Foundation
Webinar: Environmental Management of Pediatric Asthma
Environmental Protection Agency
Webinar: Care for Their Air: Asthma Pilot Project for Head Start and Child Care Learning Settings
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Physician Asthma Care Education (PACE) Program
Online program shown to enhance asthma treatment and the physician-patient partnership
NIOSH-approved Spirometry Training Courses
Schedule of trainings on spirometry testing procedures and interpretation standard
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