Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28192148›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology2017

Something new in the air: Paying for community-based environmental approaches to asthma prevention and control.

Megan M Tschudy, Joshua Sharfstein, Elizabeth Matsui, Charles S Barnes, Stacey Chacker, Rosa Codina, John R Cohn, Megan Sandel, H James Wedner

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Review in The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Sampling Devices for Indoor Allergen Exposure: Pros and Cons.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Megan M TschudyDivision of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
Joshua SharfsteinJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Md.
Elizabeth MatsuiDivision of Pediatric Allergy/Immunology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. Electronic address: ematsui@jhmi.edu.
Charles S BarnesAllergy/Immunology Division, Children's Mercy, Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.
Stacey ChackerAsthma Regional Council of New England, Health Resources in Action, Boston, Mass.
Rosa CodinaAllergen Science & Consulting, Lenoir, NC.
John R CohnJefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa.
Megan SandelPediatrics and Public Health, Boston University, National Center For Medical-Legal Partnership, Boston, Mass.
H James WednerWashington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.
Johns Hopkins University · USBoston University · USChildren's Mercy Hospital · USHealth Resources in Action · USWashington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the recommendation in national asthma guidelines to target indoor environmental exposures, most insurers generally have not covered the outreach, education, environmental assessments, or durable goods integral to home environmental interventions. However, emerging payment approaches offer new potential for coverage of home-based environmental intervention costs. These opportunities are becoming available as public and private insurers shift reimbursement to reward better health outcomes, and their key characteristic is a focus on the value rather than the volume of services. These new payment models for environmental interventions can be divided into 2 categories: enhanced fee-for-service reimbursement and set payments per patient that cover asthma-related costs. Several pilot programs across the United States are underway, and as they prove their value and as payment increasingly becomes aligned with better outcomes at lower cost, these efforts should have a bright future. Physicians should be aware that these new possibilities are emerging for payment of the goods and services needed for indoor environmental interventions for their patients with asthma.

Indexed as

Community ParticipationDelivery of Health CareReimbursement MechanismsAllergensAsthmaCosts and Cost AnalysisEarly Medical InterventionEnvironmental ExposureHumansPatient Education as TopicSmoking CessationUnited StatesAllergensAsthmaenvironmental interventionshealth care payment

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PMID28192148
OpenAlexW2587229808

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