Study: Hospitals’ asthma care standards are Ineffective

Study: Hospitals’ asthma care standards are Ineffective

New York - A new research was published after conducting a study among kids with asthma. The study discredits the relationship between being properly treated in the hospital and having lesser chance to get confined again for the same illness in the future. The study also suggests that there is no difference among hospitals giving the best treatment to children with asthma compared to other hospitals with satisfactory medical facilities and service.

Researchers are now questioning the importance of having standards to grade and rate hospital asthma service care when in fact they don’t translate into patient’s medical improvements in real life. Hospitals that follow process measures in giving the best medical care to asthmatic children at home did not helped at all in keeping children from getting lesser future asthma hospitalization and trips to ER, the team who conducted the study added.

Researchers however, believe that the root cause lies on the way families understood the recommendations of the doctors at discharge.  Continuous medical care at home may seem to be useless and might not give desirable outcome simply because doctors weren’t able to explain thoroughly the steps involved in a manner understandable to the family members. Having a paper prescription from the doctor does not translate literally to successful recovery unless it is explained properly.

Posted by George Daniels on Thursday October 06 2011, 7:24 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Health. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0