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“Oregon has been a leader in measuring our progress in treating asthma. We need systems that measure and support interventions in every clinic if we want to be successful in treating asthma”.
Nancy Clarke
Executive Director
Oregon Health Care
Quality Corporation
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Asthma Care in Oregon - What have we learned?
An inside look at data from 2001-2005
Asthma Care Results for Oregonians
We have been working with two workgroups to measure asthma care indicators from the Guide for the past several years. The workgroups include the Asthma Data Workgroup (ADWG), which is a voluntary workgroup composed primarily of representatives from several major health plans and health systems in Oregon, and the Oregon Division of Medical Assistance Programs – Quality and Performance Improvement (DMAP-QPI) Workgroup, which is composed primarily of health plans and systems that serve members of the Oregon Health Plan (OHP; i.e., Medicaid recipients).
Combined, these workgroups measured asthma care indicators based on more than 550,000 Oregonians with health insurance in 2005, which represents about 20% of the Oregon population aged 4-55 years. In the sections below, we present the findings for some of these indicators and assess whether asthma care in Oregon is improving, staying the same, or getting worse.
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