Racial and ethnic differences in the management of childhood asthma in the United States.

Objectives: We examined racial and ethnic differences in the management of childhood asthma in the United States and the extent that care conformed to clinical best practices.

Methods: Two years of pooled data from the National Health Interview Survey were analyzed using logistic regression. The sample included all children between ages 2 and 17 years who had asthma currently and had been diagnosed with asthma by a doctor or health professional (n = 1757; 465 African-American, 212 Mexican-American, 190 Puerto Rican and other Hispanic, 806 white, non-Hispanic, and 84 children of other and multiple races and ethnicities).