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Article: Disease management program cuts hospitalizations by 35% for children.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- December 15, 2003
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2003 DEC 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The asthma disease management program administered by McKesson Health Solutions, a business unit of McKesson Corporation, significantly reduces hospitalizations and emergency department visits for children and adolescents suffering from the chronic lung condition, according to research published in the November 2003 issue of Disease Management & Health Outcomes.
The matched control study followed 318 children and adolescents under the age of 18, who participated in McKesson's telephonic asthma disease management program. The research project compared the participating group to 318 matched non-participants who received ...