For the following measures, the study group
showed greater improvement than the comparison
group, but the across-group difference in
improvement did not reach statistical significance:
1. percentage of children with urgent clinical
care visits in the previous 12 months;
2. mean symptom-free days in previous 2 weeks;
3. mean days of limited activity in previous 2
weeks;
4. mean days of rescue medicine use in previous
2 weeks; and
5. mean nights with symptoms in previous 2
weeks.
The improvement in the mean number of
asthma attacks in the previous 3 months for the
comparison group marginally exceeded that of
the study group (P = .092).