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UA researchers are studying if the combination of dispensing asthma inhalers (corticosteroids) in the emergency department and supervising their use in elementary schools will increase the medication’s use among children with asthma and decrease emergency department visits.

Asthma is the most common chronic disease in pediatrics, affecting about 7 million children in the United States and accounting for 670,000 emergency department (ED) visits each year for acute asthma attacks.

Reasons for asthma-related emergency visits vary, but children are taken more frequently to the ED rather than to a primary care provider. About one-third of the children who come to the emergency department to be treated for an asthma attack end up revisiting the ED because of a second attack within six months. Those repeat emergency visits are almost cut in half, however, for children who regularly use their inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) after initial discharge.

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