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Access to medical care and asthma management practices for children in three public housing developments in Boston |
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| Franklin Hill |
West Broadway |
Washington Beech |
Total |
p-value (Wilcoxon rank-sum test) |
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| % with doctor to call other than emergency room |
68% (N = 41) |
89% (N = 27) |
29% (N = 7) |
72% (N = 75) |
0.005 |
| % with written asthma action plan |
39% (N = 41) |
46% (N = 24) |
10% (N = 10) |
37% (N = 75) |
0.14 |
| % with peak flow meter |
28% (N = 40) |
33% (N = 27) |
10% (N = 10) |
27% |
0.37 |
| % of persistent asthmatics using long-term control medication |
21% (N = 19) |
57% (N = 21) |
14% (N = 7) |
36% (N = 47) |
0.03 |
Levy et al. Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2004 3:13 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-3-13 |
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