Flow Chart 2: Typical Patient Flow for Return Asthma Clinic Visit

  • Family Registers
  • Registration clerk verifies insurance
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Community Health Worker (CHW)
  • Greets the family
  • Follows up to find out the family's progress on any goals they may have set at the home visit
  • Follows up on any psychosocial interventions that are in progress
  • Explains to the family what is expected at clinic and about how long today's appointment will take
  • Elicits and addresses any questions about the program or today's visit
  • Reviews asthma self-management education as needed per the checklist
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Children aged < 6 years
 
Children aged = 6 years
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Clinical case manager and/or medical assistant
  • Peak flow (observe technique and provide coaching)
  • Perform spirometry
  • Give 2-4 puffs of albuteral per physician order, (observe technique and provide coaching). Wait 20 minutes before doing a post bronchodilator spirometry.
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Clinical case manager
  • Elicits child's/family's issues and concerns about asthma, addresses identified issues and concerns
  • Assesses recent asthma control and if notwell controlled, explores reasons for suboptimal control and negotiates goals for improved control
  • Assesses self-management skills and provides self-management educational material as needed
  • Asks family about their confidence in their ability to self manage
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Children aged < 6 years
 
Children aged = 6 years
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Clinician
  • Reviews records
  • Performs physical assessment
  • Interprets spirometry
  • Initiates or adjusts medications as needed
  • Gives prescription for medications, MDIs, and spacers as needed
  • Revises written Asthma Action Plan as needed and reviews with the family how to use it
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CHW
  • Does post bronchodilator spirometry
CHW
  • Does post bronchodilator spirometry
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Case conference as needed to review and discuss progress on care plans
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