The objective of this study was to examine the effectiveness of community health worker (CHW) home visits compared with no home visits for improving asthma control and decreasing asthma symptoms in patients with low incomes and poorly controlled asthma.

Project page: Examining Home Visits from Community Health Workers to Help Patients Manage Asthma Symptoms
Principal Investigator: James Stout, MD, MPH
Organization: Seattle-King County Public Health Department
Original project title: Guidelines to Practice (G2P): Reducing Asthma Health Disparities through Guideline Implementation
HSRProj ID: 20143417
ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT02190617

To cite this document, please use: Stout J, Chen R, Farquhar S, Kramer B, Song L. (2021). Examining Home Visits from Community Health Workers to Help Patients Manage Asthma Symptoms. Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). https://doi.org/10.25302/12.2020.AS.130705498

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