MCDIN - Asthma Resources & Tools

This section provides you with the resources and tools used by your Drawing of brushes and paint bucket.

colleagues across New England to make clinical guidelines and other quality improvement tools work for their practice. Asthma flow sheets, culturally competent patient education materials, data tracking tools, and staff training resources are among the many resources you may find here.

Search the database for asthma tools & resources that are proven to work to address the problem you are facing in your practice, or browse this section to find the tools that other clinicians are using to meet the demands of accrediting and regulatory bodies.

If you used a Resource/Tool and you would like to share it with your colleagues, click Tools Form. This information will be entered into the MCDIN database and shared with other health care professionals across the region.

Tools & Resources
Teach Your Patients About Asthma: A Clinician's Guide	"Teach Your Patients About Asthma A Clinician's Guide" is a practical and flexible guide designed to help clinicians teach adults and children with asthma and parents of children with asthma about their disease and its management. The guide can be used in a variety of practice is designed for clinicians, respiratory therapists, other health professionals, and health educators. This guide is based on recommendations of the Expert Panel Report. Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma developed by the National Asthma Education Program of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Docs Need SOC's (Systems of Care)	QI Tools for Primary Care - An invaluable downloadable resource for anyone wanting to implement organizational Quality Improvement. DOCS need SOCS is the final report of the West Virginia Primary Care Association Quality Improvement Project.
20 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors (Spanish Language Version)	AHRQ's Spanish/English language versions of the new fact sheet with practical tips to help people protect themselves from errors in their health care. 20 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors has specific, research - based recommendations on preventing medical errors related to medicines, hospital stays, and surgery.
20 Tips to Prevent Medical Errors (English Language Version)
Asthma AwarenessCurriculum for the Elementary Classroom	This NHLBI asthma curriculum was developed for use with elementary school children. These lessons are easily integrated into a comprehensive health education curriculum and/or into science as it relates to body systems and the environment. They can also be integrated into social sciences as they relate to getting along with others and learning about community resources. The lessons include suggestions for math, art, and language arts activities.
The Role Of The Pharmacist In Improving Asthma Care	This downloadable NHLBI guide was designed to help pharmacists identify ways that they can actively participate on the asthma care team. Written by pharmacists, it contains practical guidance for filling six important educational and information-sharing roles in asthma management.
Asthma and Allergy Answers: A Patient Education Library	This resource catalog from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America is an easy solution to all of those FAQ's. Includes information on more than 45 topics of interest to patients. Packaged in an attractive, durable binder, these reproducible answers are written in a patient- friendly question and answer format and conforms to the NHLBI Guidelines. There is also space to personalize these handy patient education materials with your practice or facility information.
Student Asthma Action Card	A downloadable asthma action card from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America designed for your school-aged patients to leave in their school health office in case of an asthma attack or emergency.

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