Effects of a 12-month multi-faceted mentoring intervention on knowledge, quality, and usage of spirometry in primary care: a before-and-after study

Table 2 Pre-Intervention and During Intervention Spirometry Usage in Patients with Asthma

Site	1		2		3		5
	Pre	During	Pre	During	Pre	During	Pre	During
Total patients (under the care of mentees) (≥6 years of age)	1499	1594	2814	2838	5686	5647	10806	10806
Patients with asthma	83ⁱ	90ⁱ	269ⁱ	322ⁱ	264^j	224^j	1655^k	1677^k
Proportion of visits for respiratory complaints^l in which spirometry was ordered (%)	6/40 (15 %)	29/32 (91 %)^a	19/131 (14 %)	15/55 (27 %)^b	35/141 (25 %)	26/113 (23 %)^c	15/200 (7.5 %)	59/136 (43 %)^d
Proportion of visits for non-respiratory complaints in which spirometry was ordered (%)	4/156 (2.6 %)	21/269 (7.8 %)^e	4/706 (0.6 %)	0/601 (0 %)^f	5/896 (0.6 %)	9/602 (1.5 %)^g	7/1732 (0.4 %)	6/1177 (0.5 %)^h

Please see Fig. 2 for individual site charactersitics
^ap < 0.01; ^bp = 0.04; ^cp = 0.74; ^dp < 0.01; ^ep = 0.03; ^fp = 0.13; ^gp = 0.06; ^hp = 0.68 *please note that these values were not corrected for any possible effects of nesting within mentor pods
ⁱidentified through a free-word “asthma” used in the clinical chart; or “asthma” in the problem list or past health history; or use of the asthma billing code in last 1 year [37], followed by a manual review to remove all patients who did not have a clinical diagnosis of asthma and/or who had a clinical diagnosis of COPD
^jIdentified through a free-word “asthma” used in the clinical chart; or “asthma” in the problem list or past health history [37], followed by a manual review to remove all patients who did not have a clinical diagnosis of asthma and/or who had a clinical diagnosis of COPD
^kidentified through a search for patient with an active prescription for an asthma medication, followed by removal of any patients in whom a COPD billing code had been used in the past or who had “COPD” in the problem list or past health history [37]
^lvisits where the chief complaint was cough, wheeze, short of breath, or upper/lower respiratory tract infection

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