Annals of family medicine
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Annals of family medicine · May 2005
Multicenter StudyEvaluation of a quality improvement collaborative in asthma care: does it improve processes and outcomes of care?
We wanted to examine whether a collaborative to improve asthma care influences process and outcomes of care in asthmatic adults. ⋯ The intervention was associated with improved process-of-care measures that have been linked with better outcomes. Patients benefited through increased satisfaction with communication. Follow-up of patients who participated in the intervention may have been too brief to be able to detect significant improvement in health-related outcomes.