Testing Better Ways to Help Doctors Manage Children's Moderate to Severe Asthma

This research is testing whether having better tools built into a doctor's electronic health record—along with support from community health workers and nurse care managers—helps improve how doctors manage moderate to severe asthma in children. The study is trying to increase the use of a newer management strategy called single maintenance and reliever therapy (SMART), which research shows helps kids stick to their daily asthma medicine and reduces confusion about which inhaler to use. Your child's clinic may receive these new tools, or it may continue with usual care.

Moderate to severe asthma in children is common and causes a lot of missed school and doctor visits. Even though there's a better way to manage it that works well in other countries, many doctors in the U.S. aren't using it yet. This study wants to find out whether giving doctors better tools and support will help them adopt this approach and help more children with asthma breathe easier.