Description: The Pan-Canadian Asthma and COPD Standards are an evidence-based set of recommended data elements and standardized data definitions for use in primary care electronic health records/electronic medical records in Canada.
Access Instructions :
Owner/Author:
PRESTINE Working Group of Canadian Thoracic Society, Asthma Clinical Assembly
Year:
2021
Patient Population:
Pediatric, Adult
Format:
PDF
Relevant Quality
Statement:
Quality Improvement Resources
Decision Support Guidance
Who might use this tool?
- Primary Care/Family Physicians
- General Practitioners
- Pediatricians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Certified Respiratory Educators
- Nurses
When might they use this tool?
- In everyday practice in EMRs/EHRs, to be used for asthma diagnosis, medication, SA algorithm for decision support, standardized data for patient outcomes and benchmarking
Why might they use this tool?
- To be used for asthma management in primary care practice, as well as performance evaluation
- To collect and report on standardized data and asthma performance indicators
- The PRESTINE SA Algorithm is a knowledge translation tool at the point-of-care that may enhance asthma care and patient outcomes. This includes
- Asthma management
- Performance evaluation
What are important considerations when using this tool?
- This tool was designed to facilitate evidence-based clinical care, monitoring, surveillance, benchmarking and policy development
- This tool has a large number of elements, but they are meant to be integrated into EMRs and also make use of auto-population features
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