Abstract
Emergency-room pediatric asthma care varies widely among hospital types and differs significantly from National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines, survey results in the August Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine showed. Emergency department directors from 376 children9s, public and community hospitals reported their emergency room pediatric asthma treatment methods and NIH guideline knowledge. Asthma accounted for 16.9 percent of annual pediatric emergency room visits. Two percent of emergency room directors had written asthma treatment guidelines, more often at children9s hospitals. Forty-five percent of those surveyed had heard of the NIH guidelines, and 31 percent had read them. Nearly 24 percent of children9s hospital emergency room directors had read the guidelines.
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