Educational home visits can improve asthma in children, study suggests

Monday, November 30, 2009 - 17:42 in Health & Medicine

A few home visits by a health care specialist to educate children with asthma about basic strategies for earlier symptom recognition and improving medication use can lead to fewer flare-ups and less frequent trips to the ER, according to research from Johns Hopkins Children's Center published in the December issue of Pediatrics.

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