Virtual asthma care after ER visits could keep kids breathing easy

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria (all criteria must be met): * Physician diagnosis of asthma, based on review of medical records and/or caregiver report. * Current emergency visit for an acute asthma exacerbation, requiring treatment with rescue medication. * Persistent asthma or poor asthma control for which a daily controller medication is recommended by NHLBI guidelines, defined as any 1 of the following: 1. \>2 days/wk with asthma symptoms in the past month, 2. \>2 days/wk with rescue medication use in the past month, 3. \>2 days/month with nighttime symptoms in the past month (vs. 1-2 nights per month if 3-4 years old), or 4. ≥1 other episode of asthma during the past year that required systemic corticosteroids (vs. during the past 6 months if 3-4 years old). * Child age between ≥3 and ≤12 years. * Child and caregiver live in the greater Rochester, NY metropolitan area (Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, Livingston, Genesee, and Orleans Counties) * Emergency severity index triage scores of 2-5 (total range 1-5; scores of 1 indicate the highest acuity and likelihood of hospitalization). Exclusion Criteria: * An inability to speak and understand English. Parents (and children) with low literacy / health-literacy skills will be eligible, as survey instruments will be administered verbally and educational materials will be designed for low-literacy populations. * No access to a working phone for follow-up surveys (either at the subject's home or an easily accessible location). If a subject does not have access to an appropriate device for Zoom visits at home, we will provide a device with required data plan. * Other significant medical conditions, including cystic fibrosis, congenital heart disease, or other chronic lung disease, that could interfere with the assessment of asthma-related measures. * Children in foster care or other situations in which consent cannot be obtained from a legal guardian.