Promoting Asthma Guidelines and Management Through Technology-Based Intervention and Care Coordination

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• The child has other significant medical conditions, such as congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis, or other chronic lung disease, that could interfere with the assessment of asthma-related measures
  • Additional exclusion criteria will apply to a subset of 512 children/caregivers as described above:

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• No access to a telephone to conduct follow-up surveys
• Children in foster care or other situations in which consent cannot be obtained from a guardian

• The criteria listed below will apply to \~5,000 children from eMPI and eUC practices:
• Physician-diagnosed asthma (based on EHR)
• Persistent or uncontrolled asthma as per clinic assessment. Based on NHLBI guidelines, any one of the following: in past month, \> 2 days/week with asthma symptoms, \>2 days/week with rescue medication use, \>2 days/month with nighttime symptoms, or \> 2 episodes in the past year that required systemic corticosteroids
• Age 2 and 12 years, inclusive
  • Additional inclusion criteria will apply to a subset of 512 of children whose caregivers will be interviewed to obtain caregiver-reported morbidity outcomes:
• Caregiver is able to speak and understand either English or Spanish. Participants unable to read will be eligible as all surveys will be administered verbally by research personnel
• Consent from the primary caregiver, caregiver permission for the child to participate as well as assent from the child (\>7 years). If there are eligible siblings, only one child will be randomly selected