Asthma. Assessment and management in a pediatric hospital.

To evaluate the method used to assess and subsequently manage children with asthma, a retrospective chart review was carried out at the Children's Hospital of Western Ontario in London. Charts of 78 children diagnosed with asthma were randomly selected from emergency room daily records and inpatient files. Pharmacologic management of acute asthma proved adequate, but children with daily asthma symptoms likely would not have been identified or treated.