PMID: 18724541Aug 30, 2008Paper

The influence of guidelines of asthma management in adults in reference to family physicians knowledge in the field of treatment

Przegla̧d lekarski
Elzbieta Kryj-RadziszewskaTomasz Grodzicki

Abstract

Assessment of the influence of the guidelines on asthma for family physicians in reference to their knowledge in the field of patient's treatment. The assessed group consisted of 111 physicians before training in family medicine and guideline implemention of asthma for family physicians and four years later. The knowledge of the physicians accessment in the first part of the examination in the field of patient's treatment was low (compatibility with the guidelines was 42% in the part "General principles of treatment" and 65% in "Pharmacotherapy"). In the second part of the study, there was a statistically significant improvement (p<0.05) of the level of knowledge in both fields (compatibility with the guidelines was 55% in "General principles of treatment" and 73% in "Pharmacotherapy"). The average improvement for the whole Questionnaire was 12.3% (13.3% for "General principles of treatment" and 8.4% for "Pharmacotherapy"). Guideline Implementing for family physicians in the management of bronchial asthma had a significant influence on the improvement of knowledge about patients treatment. Provided that assessment of knowledge concerning treatment of patients with asthma in our study was declared better than real management, th...Continue Reading

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