Asthma Disease Management Resource Manual

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Table of Contents

Welcome to the ACAAI Asthma Disease Management Resource Manual. This manual was created to assist health care organizations and individual practitioners in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of asthma. The manual includes patient guidelines, checklists, treatment algorithms and therapy recommendations. Particular emphasis is given to patient self-care and monitoring, as well as the psychosocial factors that may have an impact on the disease. The sections of the manual are:

Overview of Asthma Disease Management (265k)

Section A (343k)
Initial Patient History: provides a comprehensive self-reported patient medical history. 
 
Section B (197k)
Asthma Checklist: enables nurses to quickly assess and summarize the asthma condition of each patient. 
 
Section C (435k)
Diagnostic Algorithm for Asthma: provides a road map to diagnose and assess the severity of asthma. 
 
Section D (362k)
Psychosocial Intervention Care Path: helps detect the effect, if any, of a patient's psychosocial state on his or her disease state. 
 
Section E (137k)
Asthma Specialist Consultation Guidelines: identifies conditions that indicate the need for specialist referral. 
 
Section F (339k)
Severity-Based Asthma Management: assesses disease severity and suggests treatment in a stepwise approach. 
 
Section G (281k)
Patient Action Plan: provides an individualized action plan based on the patient's current disease status. 
 
Section H (263k)
Asthma Home Management: provides telephone contact worksheets and home management algorithm for asthma exacerbations. 
 
Section I (498k)
Emergency Room Asthma Protocols and Forms: recommends treatment protocol when a patient presents at the emergency room with an acute exacerbation. 
 
Section J (215k)
Adult/Pediatric Discharge-to-Home Instructions: contains patient education forms to be used after emergency room or hospital discharge. 
 
Section K (324k)
Immunotherapy: provides patient and physician information sheets and sample consent forms.

Section L (29k)
Team Care: explains the benefits of a multi-disciplinary team approach to asthma management.

Although this manual as a whole is copyrighted, its individual forms, checklists and information sheets are intended to be copied or modified for use in patient care. Permission is hereby granted for the reproduction of these materials for use in clinical or home care of asthma patients.