Translational Effect of Provider-Focused Multi-State Multi-Clinic Asthma Care Quality Improvement Program on Patient-Level Health Care Costs

摘要

Enhancing Care for Patients with Asthma (ECPA), a year-long provider-focused, multi-state, multi-clinic quality improvement program, decreased avoidable utilizations among patients with asthma, but its effects on health care expenditures were not determined. This study examined the translational and sustainable effects of improved care through ECPA on individual-level total health care costs due to asthma.