Objective To explore management models for asthmatic children in primary hospitals.Methods A total of 465 children with asthma,all of whom were outpatients,were managed according to general medicine principles from January 2000 to October 2002.The children were divided into two groups,depending on whether they were enrolled in the management before or after January 2002 (before:after=186:279).Based on Global Initiative for Asthma and individual requirements,different treatment measures were applied,and all the patients,their parents and community health care workers received education of basic knowledge on asthma.The extent to which the knowledge was grasped by the study populations at different stages was analyzed,and difference in progression of the disease before and after the introduction of management was compared.Results There were significant differences (P0.05].Of all 465 children,the mean frequency of asthma attack per year,asthma-based mean hospitalization per year and cases with normal predicted value of peak expiratory rate of flow were 4.23?1.55,0.61?0.59,36/190 and 0.83?0.86,0.03?0.17,179/190 before and after the introduction of the management respectively (P