Trends in asthma hospitalisation: is this related to prevention inhaler usage?
| Autor: | R MacFaul |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
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medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Short Report Wheeze Administration Inhalation medicine Humans Anti-Asthmatic Agents Respiratory sounds Child Intensive care medicine Respiratory Sounds Asthma Childhood asthma medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Nebulizers and Vaporizers Inhaler Infant Newborn Infant medicine.disease Hospitalization England El Niño Bronchiolitis Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Bronchitis Female medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Disease in Childhood. 89:1158-1160 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2044 0003-9888 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/adc.2004.054130 |
| Popis: | Sunderland and Fleming1 show declining episodes of acute asthma seen in general practice and make reference to increasing hospitalisation for childhood asthma between 1970 and 1990. Whilst overall paediatric admissions have risen since 1990,2 I present data here which shows that there has been a decline in hospital asthma admissions for children in England since 1990. This is the case even when the trend to describe some hospital admissions as due to viral wheeze or wheezy bronchitis is taken into account—“a diagnostic transfer” also considered by Sunderland and Fleming. Hospital episode … |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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