Linkages and coordination of care across settings can:
- Improve medication adherence among people with asthma;
- Reduce asthma-related emergency department visits and hospitalizations;
- Decrease missed school days because of asthma; and
- Reduce healthcare costs.
Coordinated care includes linking people to needed healthcare and social services.
Ways to improve linkages and coordinated care among people with asthma include::
- Quality improvement initiatives;
- Patient-centered medical homes;
- Disease management or case management programs, and
- School or community-based programs.