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Risk factors for recurrent emergency department visits for asthma.
BACKGROUND Patients presenting with asthma to emergency departments have lost control of their disease, have significant airways obstruction, and frequently require admission to hospital. Although even one visit is not desirable, there is a more disturbing subgroup who repeatedly visit the emergency department. METHODS To investigate the reasons for multiple emergency visits, a questionnaire ...
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INTRODUCTION The prevalence of childhood asthma in the United States increased from 8.7% in 2001 to 9.5% in 2011. This increased prevalence adds to the costs incurred by state Medicaid programs. We provide state-based cost estimates of pediatric asthma emergency department (ED) visits and highlight an opportunity for states to reduce these costs through a recently changed Centers for Medicare a...
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It is important to identify characteristics related to poor disease control and frequent visits to the emergency department (ED). The objective of the present study was to compare the characteristics of patients attending the adult ED for treatment of asthma exacerbation with those attending an asthma specialist clinic (AC) in the same hospital, and to determine the factors associated with freq...
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OBJECTIVE To determine if the asthma medication ratio predicts subsequent emergency department (ED) visits and hospital admissions in children. DESIGN Retrospective cohort with two year pairs. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS 2007-2009 South Carolina Medicaid recipients with persistent asthma age 2-18. MAIN EXPOSURE Controller-to-total asthma medication ratios were calculated for each patient in 2007...
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WSAS is a clinical epidemiological study, based on a random population of 30000 individuals living in West Sweden. After having answered a questionnaires, a random population was invited to extensive clinical phenotyping. We here report lung function FENO data from 954 asthmatics and 1030 non-asthmatics. Asthma was defined as “doctors diagnosis of asthma” and “ever asthma” + “current asthma med...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Reports (1896-1970)
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0094-6214
DOI: 10.2307/4592867