A Patient Advocate to Improve Real-world Asthma Management for Inner City Adults

Subject works with a Patient Advocate who coaches, models, and assists with preparations for a visit with the asthma doctor; attends the visit with permission of participant and provider; and confirms understanding. The PA facilitates scheduling, obtaining insurance coverage, overcoming patients' unique social and administrative barriers to accomplishing medical advice, and transfer of information between provider and patient.

Subjects receive asthma care from their proivders in the participating practices which generally follow asthma guidelines