What is CASI?
The Chicago Asthma Surveillance Initiative (CASI) is a project
that is charged with characterizing and monitoring variations in
asthma care within City of Chicago and the surrounding counties.
What
is the purpose of the study?
Its aims:
1: To characterize the variation in asthma care in
hospitals, emergency departments, primary care and asthma specialty
practices, managed care organizations, and pharmacists within the
Chicago area. CASI is also completing a survey of general asthma
knowledge in our community.
2: To
provide data to various organizations with community wide programs
in asthma education such as the
Chicago Asthma Consortium (CAC).
3: To
establish a method of monitoring changes in area-wide asthma care
for the purpose of evaluating the success of community-wide asthma
awareness efforts.
What
is the Chicago Asthma Consortium?
See
About the Chicago Asthma Consortium.
Where
can I get a copy of the national asthma guidelines?
Contact the
National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at the
NIH and request a copy of the "Guidelines for the Management and
Diagnosis of Asthma".
How is
the CASI study supported?
The CASI project is supported by a grant from the
Otho S.A. Sprague Memorial Institute. The dissemination of the
information from the CASI surveys is partially supported by
contributions from GlaxoWellcome, Inc., Merck & Co., and Rhone-Poulnec
Rorer.
If I
want to get a copy of the presentations who do I contact?
There are a couple of methods to acquire a presentation. If you
want actual slides, either call Anita Malone at (312) 695-5100, or
email her at
a-malone@chicago-casi.org. You can also download the
presentations in PowerPoint version 7.0 format by going to the
Slide Sets section of this site. You must fill out the online
application and agree to not modify any portion of the presentation.
What
are PDF files?
All of CASI's brochures are available as
PDF files online. PDF is a file type created by Adobe which
lets you view, print and distribute high quality documents no matter
what type of computer you have. In order to view these, you need a
plugin from Adobe.
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