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Diagnosis: Practice control score as an outcome assessment tool
Clear communication between health care professionals and asthma patients to meet patients' information needs is a key to enhancing compliance. Patient education involves a partnership between the patients and health care professionals with frequent revision and reinforcement. The aim is guided self-management that gives patients the ability to control their own condition with guidance from the health care professionals. Interventions including the use of education and written self-management (action) plans have been shown to reduce morbidity in both adults and children.1 Unfortunately, education and good practice are quality measures and cannot be assessed as quantity measures and by scores. Some research should be conducted to determine key quantity elements in asthma practice, which can form a scoring system to evaluate the current practice and delivery of care to each asthma patient.
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