Sponsor a PACE Program – Physician
Asthma Care Education

Want to enhance health care delivery and health outcomes for asthma patients? Get involved as a session leader or organizer and you could bring about significant change in your practice community.

PACE seminars can be sponsored by:

PACE enables physicians to improve treatment decisions and deliver asthma management counseling to patients.  It gives strategies that are easy to incorporate into office practice and that impact the patient’s ability to retain and use advice from the physician.

The 2-session, interactive, multi-media program teaches how to:

• Employ the best current therapies for asthma
• Communicate effectively with patients to foster their practice of good asthma management
• Document, code, and improve asthma counseling reimbursement

Sessions cover classification, assessment, and stepwise treatment plans from the most recent version of Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma from the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. They also offer opportunities for clinicians to discuss asthma cases and view videos on effective patient education techniques.

In two rigorous studies, patients of participating PACE physicians had fewer days affected by asthma symptoms and fewer emergency room visits.

PACE* was created by physicians and public health professionals at the University of Michigan Center for Managing Chronic Disease and their colleagues at Columbia University.

Review Teaching and Learning Materials on the PACE Web Site

The PACE curriculum and materials are available for free downloading on the NHLBI Web site.   They include:

• Speaker’s Guide with suggested teaching scripts
• Presentation Slides in Power Point
• Materials for Participants (Participant Binder Materials)
• Videos to train seminar facilitators
• Videos on communication skills and patient teaching techniques to show during the seminars
• Tips on how to organize, recruit participants, and prepare for the sessions
• A contact list of master trainers

Preview the Videos for Help in Organizing PACE Programs

The four videos on communication and patient education messages used during PACE sessions can be previewed online and downloaded at http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/prof/lung/asthma/pace/resources.htm. Look for links labeled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4.

The six videos for training session leaders are only available online on the PACE Web site.  Find them in the section Resources for Organizing and Leading a PACE Seminar.