Chair Schulman on asthma program effectiveness metrics

What metrics will DOH, I have a number of questions about the asthma center, so what metrics will DOHMH use to evaluate the center's effectiveness in reducing asthma-related emergency room visits and hospitalizations?

Thank you so much for the question.

So the Bronx Asthma Initiative will utilize a comprehensive process and outcome evaluation approach for this work.

The primary outcome metrics that we focus on are reducing asthma-related emergency department visits and reducing asthma-related hospitalizations for children.

To measure population-level impact, we're also analyzing trends for children residing in the Bronx and in the neighborhoods that we're serving through this work in comparison to children residing in other parts of the Bronx.

So this analysis helps us understand over time how the intervention is impacting the kids who are going through the services of the Bronx Asthma Initiative.

Additionally, we're also assessing feasibility of leveraging a local health information exchange, which helps us with pre- and post-analysis of the same ED utilization as well as hospital admissions.

Thanks so much.