Asthma Action Plan for Adults

A patient-centered telephone intervention using the asthma action plan.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Application of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) practice model requires managing patients with chronic diseases, such as asthma, with patient-centered approaches that ensure appropriate ongoing assessment and treatment for all patients. The Asthma Control Score (ACS) and the Asthma Action Plan (AAP) are validated tools for assessment and management of asthma. A...

The effectiveness of newly developed written asthma action plan in improvement of asthma outcome in children.

BACKGROUND Providing asthma education about controller medication use and appropriate management of asthma exacerbation are the keys to improving the disease outcome. Many asthma guidelines recommend that physicians provide written asthma action plan (WAAP) to all of their asthmatic patients. However, the benefit of WAAP is unclear. Thus, we have created a new WAAP which is simplified in Thai a...

Basis for an Action Plan for Nutrition

Winning the COVID-19 War: McKinsey & Company's Proposed Plan for Action at the Local Level

McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm, has published a document for local authorities to introduce and explain strategies and actions to combat COVID-19. This document, by evaluating the current situation and considering some degree of contagion for at least 12-18 months, presents three strategies for local authorities to deal effectively with the virus and safeguard the life ...

Plan Synthesis for Knowledge and Action Bases

We study plan synthesis for a variant of Knowledge and Action Bases (KABs), a rich, dynamic framework, where states are description logic (DL) knowledge bases (KBs) whose extensional part is manipulated by actions that possibly introduce new objects from an infinite domain. We show that plan existence over KABs is undecidable even under severe restrictions. We then focus on state-bounded KABs, ...