Emergency department visit count: a practical tool to predict asthma hospitalization in children.

CONCLUSIONS: ED visit count is a reliable predictor of future asthma hospitalization risk. Future studies could aim to validate these findings to support using ED visit count as a practical and objective tool to predict the children at the highest risk of future hospitalization and therefore, those who may benefit most from ED-based preventative interventions. PMID: 31225968 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31225968?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Asthma - June 22, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Tags: J Asthma Source Type: research