THE RESULTS OF ASTHMA TREATMENT IN EASY ASTHMA CLINIC AT PHRAO HOSPITAL, CHIANGMAI PROVINCE

Abstract

Asthma is a chronic disease causing is a crucial problem of the global public health. A standard practice could reduce severity of asthma. Phrao Hospital, Chiang Mai Province has founded an Easy asthma clinic serving as a multidisciplinary team. This study was a descriptive research having an objective to evaluate the operational results of the asthma clinic by collection the data from the easy asthma clinic medical records of the patients who completely received the treatment until one exact year during January 2011 to December 2012. The data collected comprised an asthma control, lung function test, and patient information of asthma symptoms from the Department of Emergency Rooms and inpatient rooms before and after receiving the treatment of asthma in months 3, 6 and 12. The data analyzes used statistics: percentage, average, McNemar’s test, Pair t-test, and odds ratio. The results showed that a total of 38 asthma patients were 44.74% male and 55.26% female. The comparison of results before and after treatments from the asthma clinic was made the patients did not have asthmatic attack at night time was significantly increased at P=0.02, the drug use for relieving asthma symptoms was significantly decreased at P=0.03. Beside that the asthma patients who after receiving treatment from the asthma clinic were not necessary to visit the Department of Emergency Room at the ratio of 7.61 times and were not admitted in Department of Inpatient with the ratio of 15.07 times to before receiving the treatment from the asthma clinic. The study showed that after the treatment from an easy asthma clinic at Phrao Hospital the patients received a better effective treatment when compared to the pre-clinic condition. Keywords: Asthma, Easy asthma clinic, Asthma control, Lung function test