Asthma Emergency Room Visits Statistics

Emergency department visits by patients aged 45 and over with diabetes.

Asthma emergency room visits statistics.

11 people die from asthma. National health interview survey 2013 and 2014 pdf icon pdf 348 kb emergency department visits for injury and illness in persons aged 65 and over. Ed visits for asthma are the basis of a national indicators for asthma in hp2020 objectives rd 3 3. County emergency department visit and hospitalization rates 2015.

Asthma related emergency department visits. Asthma prevalence asthma related emergency department visits and asthma related mortality rates the outcomes were not weighted equally. Indiana public health district asthma profiles june 2016. Census for the denominator.

Asthma is the third ranking cause of hospitalization among children younger than 15. 1 000 people are admitted to the hospital due to asthma. Reasons for emergency room use among u s. Asthma accounts for 9 8 million doctor s office visits 188 968 discharges from hospital inpatient care and 1 8 million emergency department visits each year.

30 000 people have an asthma attack. The ed visit count is the number of emergency department visits with a primary diagnosis code for asthma. This transition may affect how asthma hospitalization and emergency department visits are captured caution must be used when evaluation time trends or comparing data from 2015 and before to data from 2016 or later. 40 000 people miss school or work due to asthma.

These indicators use ed visits with a primary discharge diagnosis of asthma any icd 9 cm code 493. These files include recent data on asthma in indiana and has been developed as a resource for those working on asthma in the state. African americans are three times more likely to be hospitalized from asthma. The behavioral risk factor surveillance system estimated that 9 7 of adults in new york state in 2011 had current asthma while the average number of ed visits due to asthma was seven visits per 100 adults with current asthma for the same time period.

In aafa s asthma capitals 2019 report we ranked cities based on three health outcomes. Asthma data and reports. 5 000 people visit the emergency room due to asthma. Asthma is one of the leading chronic diseases of the lungs.

The commonest reasons for emergency room visits were severe acute exacerbation poor knowledge of self management and non response to inhaled bronchodilators while the duration of asthma diagnosis family member with atopy family history of asthma and exercise intolerance were the determinants of emergency room visits and missed school days. Proper asthma management may help to reduce trips to the emergency department. Ed visits for asthma exacerbation suggest a failure of prevention oriented care since most asthma exacerbations are preventable with high quality long term management.