Telehealth support to help children manage asthma at home after an ER visit
Telehealth-Enhanced Asthma Care for Home after the Emergency Room (TEACH-ER)
This program provides telehealth follow-up and home education to help children under 12 manage asthma after an emergency room visit.
Quick facts
| Grant type | R01 grant |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | University of Rochester NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Rochester, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11191444 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If your child goes to the ER for asthma, this program offers telehealth follow-up visits and clear, picture-based home education after discharge. It combines coordination with your child’s primary care provider to start or adjust daily preventive medicines, plus health-literacy tools and two in-home telehealth teaching sessions. The approach builds on prior school-based telemedicine and hospital-to-home pilots to try to increase prescriptions, improve medication use, and reduce repeat ER visits. Families will connect with clinicians by phone/video and receive materials to support day-to-day asthma care at home.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Children aged 0–11 who recently had an emergency department visit for asthma and whose families can participate in telehealth follow-up.
Not a fit: This may not help children whose asthma is already well controlled without recent ER care or families without reliable phone/internet access for telehealth.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could mean fewer repeat ER visits, better daily medicine use, and easier at-home asthma control for children.
How similar studies have performed: Previous telemedicine work increased prescriptions after ED visits but showed mixed results for improving adherence or reducing repeat ER visits, so this combined telehealth-plus-education approach is relatively new.
Where this research is happening
Rochester, United States
- University of Rochester — Rochester, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Frey, Sean Michael — University of Rochester
- Study coordinator: Frey, Sean Michael
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.