Table 4

Asthma education in emergency department attendees⁴⁷

Study	Participants	Recruitment setting	Intervention setting/delivery	Intervention components	Outcome
ED, emergency department; I, information; RR, regular review; SM, self-monitoring; AP, written action plan; ICS, inhaled corticosteroids; OCS, oral corticosteroids; PEF, peak expiratory flow.
Brewin⁵¹	Age >16 years	Hospital	Hospital inpatient/nurse clinician	I, SM	Days off work, nocturnal waking, rescue medications, symptoms, knowledge
Cowie⁵²	Adults, adolescents	Post ED discharge	Ambulatory care/nurse clinician	I, SM, RR, AP	Hospitalisations, ED visits
Cote⁵³	Age >16 years	Hospital	Ambulatory care/specialist	I, SM, RR, AP	Hospitalisations, ED visits, days off work, knowledge, compliance, OCS
Garrett⁵⁸	Age 2–55 years	ED	Ambulatory care/nurse/community health worker	I, SM, RR	Hospitalisations, ED visits, days off work, nocturnal waking, PEF variability, symptoms
George⁵⁰	Age 18–45 years	Hospital	Hospital inpatient/asthma educator	I, RR, AP	Hospitalisations, ED visits, length of stay, outpatient visits
Levy⁵⁴	Adults	ED/hospital	Ambulatory care/nurse clinician	I, SM, RR, AP	ED visits, doctor visits, PEF, rescue medications, days off work, symptoms, quality of life, ICS
Mayo⁵⁹	Age >18 years	Hospital	Ambulatory care/multidisciplinary	I, SM, RR	Hospitalisations, skills, mortality, exacerbations, OCS, ICS
Sommaragua⁵⁵	Adults	Hospital	Hospital inpatient/multidisciplinary	I, SM, RR, AP	Hospitalisations, ED visits, days off work, exacerbations, respiratory illness survey – psychological factors
Yoon⁵⁶	Age 16–65 years	Hospital	Ambulatory care/asthma educator	I, SM, RR, AP	Hospitalisations, ED visits, days off work, lung function, knowledge, quality of life, knowledge, wheeze, ICS
Zeiger⁵⁷	Age 6–59 years	ED/hospital	Ambulatory care/nurse clinician	I, SM, RR, AP	Hospitalisations, ED visits, nocturnal asthma, ICS, perception of asthma