AJMC July 22, 2022
Alisha Lekh

Providers from an asthma primary care program found telemedicine to be effective in both caring for children with asthma and addressing unmet social needs that may exacerbate their asthma outcomes.

Telemedicine was found to be effective in addressing the medical and social needs of the pediatric patient population of the asthma program at a tertiary medical center. Providers wrote of their experience with virtual care in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice.

Telemedicine services were implemented at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and asthma was identified as a potential risk factor for more severe COVID-19, necessitating the creation of remote access to asthma care.

The hospital practice primarily cares for Black and Latino/a/e children living in...

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