y's purpose of investigating the efficacy of the national asthma guidelines, answers will be sought to the following research questions:
1. Do doctors with high compliance of stipulated asthma guidelines have fewer pediatric asthma patient visits than do doctors with low compliance of asthma guidelines?
2. Do the parents of asthma patients of doctors with high compliance regarding stipulated asthma guidelines report fewer episodes of asthma for their children than do the parents of children seeing doctors with low compliance regarding the stipulated asthma guidelines?
This study's general purpose involves assisting physicians to better understand and implement asthma guidelines. In this regard, Doerschug, Peterson, Dayton and Kline (1999) reported that not all physicians have a strong understanding and/or a strong implementation of the NHLBI updated guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma. The authors further noted that in order to develop appropriate educational interventions that address areas of physician misunderstanding, i
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