Asthma Control Program

Many local experts have shared their thoughts on asthma control by contributing to a special CME issue of Medicine and Health / Rhode Island, Rhode Island's journal of medicine and public health practice. The special issue on asthma, published in July, 1999, was co-edited by Charles Sherman, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Brown University School of Medicine, and Patricia Nolan, MD, MPH, Director of Health.

Contents:

Editorials

• Winning the Battle but Losing the War: Asthma 1999
• Introduction to Special CME Issue: Asthma

Articles

• Asthma: Profile of an Epidemic
• Should Childhood Asthma be Reportable?
• Office Management of Asthma
• All that wheezes Isn't Asthma: Why Primary Care Physicians Don't Use the Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma
• A Conversation: Managing Asthma in Children
• Leukotriene Modifiers -- A New Treatment Option for Asthma
• Managing Asthma in Rhode Island Schools
• What's Happening in the Community: a Compendium
• Asthma and the Environment: a Physician's Guide to Resources, Research and Data
• The Asthmatic Worker and the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Trends in Asthma Morbidity and Mortality, Rhode Island, 1988-1997
• "Management" When the Patient is an Inner-City Infant
• CME Forms: questions / disclaimers / evaluation

CME Credit: Deadline Extended!

Physicians had the opportunity to obtain 2 hours of category 1 credit by reading the special issue on asthma and completing a quiz before July 1, 2001. 

Downloading in PDF Format

The entire special edition on asthma may be viewed or downloaded in pdf format.