Louis Vernacchio, MD, MSc

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I must confess that as a primary care pediatrician, treating asthma often feels stale: same old medications, same old conversations about the importance of daily controllers, same old preventable emergency department visits and hospitalizations. But in this issue of Pediatrics, Beck et al1 present a novel ecologic analysis that sheds new light on the topic, linking the asthma medication ratio (AMR; the ratio of asthma controller prescriptions filled to all asthma prescriptions filled) measured at the level of individual community pharmacies with pediatric asthma exacerbations within the census tract in which the pharmacy is located…..

Pediatrics Published online May 4, 2015 (doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-0809)