A school-based asthma clinic: A partnership model for managing childhood asthma

Childhood asthma is a major public health problem. It is the leading cause of childhood hospitalizations and school absences despite recent advances i n management. Current standards of care call for client education as partne rs in disease management. In pediatrics, this calls for shared decision mak ing between health care provider, parent. and child. Traditional care deliv ery systems often fall short of meeting this standard. This article describ es a nurse practitioner-run school-based asthma clinic, designed as a pilot study, to fill these gaps. Characteristics of the community that affected outcomes are described. Copyright (C) 2000 by W.B. Saunders Company.