Objectives To investigate whether asthma coaching decreases emergency department (ED)
visits and hospitalizations and increases outpatient asthma monitoring visits. Design
Randomized controlled trial. Setting Urban tertiary care children's hospital. Participants
Primary caregivers (hereafter referred to as parents) of children aged 2 to 10 years with
asthma who have Medicaid insurance coverage and are urban residents who were
attending the ED for acute asthma care. Intervention Eighteen months of participating in …