A presentation at the 2006 CHEST conference, the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, showed that teamwork between a hospital asthma clinic and a legal assistance project resulted in asthma patients improving their health status by getting their home environments repaired. Of the patients that sought help, the need for medication use and visits to the hospital emergency department decreased and overall measures of asthma control significantly improved. To view the full article visit http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/EAC/852571020057CCF685257214004B6539?Open&type=DGDispatch
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