Peak
Flow  (WhatIsAPeakFlowMeter?)
Week |
Reading |
Zone |
| 4
This Week |
410 |
|
| 3
Last Week |
523 |
|
| 2 |
390 |
|
| 1 |
400 |
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Sample
of a Peak flow Chart for patients to view from their home page. |
Benefit for the Patient |
Benefit
for the clinicians: |
- Interactive
asthma education and self-management promotion (symptom recognition,
peak flow monitoring, medication adherence, and trigger avoidance
are the primary goals)
- Easy to use
discussion board to update primary care clinician
|
- Regular and
accurate clinical information from the patient in the home (peak
flow and symptom scores), presented in an “at-a-glance”
graphical format
- Easy to
use discussion board for patient communication.
|
| Activities
online for patient: |
Activities
online for the clinicians: |
- Educational
modules
- Reporting
peak-flow values via web entry
- Reporting
symptom scores online
- Communicating
with PCP, specialist, and peers online via asynchronous discussion
groups
- Viewing graphical
output of peak-flows and symptoms.
|
- PCP, or nurse,
will log in about once weekly to review patient entered information
- Send a brief
message to the patient/family via the discussion board
- Estimated
time per week per patient: 5 minutes.
|
This
method of asthma management was developed and implemented in Germany
in 2000 and led to decreased utilization and cost of health services.
It has been accepted and reimbursed by German health insurers as
a bona-fide health education and disease monitoring system. |
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