Admissions to Canadian hospitals for acute asthma: A prospective, multicentre study

Canadian Respiratory Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 25-30

  Rowe, Brian H ^a   Villa Roel, Cristina ^a   Abu Laban, Riyad B ^b   Stenstrom, Rob ^c   Mackey, Duncan ^d   Stiell, Ian G ^e   Campbell, Sam ^f   Young, Bryan ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d Lethbridge Regional Hospital   (Canada)

^e OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^g FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Admissions; Asthma; Emergency department; Exacerbations; Severity

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; IPRATROPIUM BROMIDE; LEUKOTRIENE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; LONG ACTING DRUG; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; SHORT ACTING DRUG; THEOPHYLLINE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 77953969631     PISSN: 11982241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/178549     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. O'Byrne PM. Airway inflammation and the pathogenesis of asthma. Can Respir J 1994;1:189-95.
2. Chapman KR, Ernst P, Grenville A, Dewland P, Zimmerman S. Control of asthma in Canada: Failure to achieve guideline targets. Can Respir J 2001;8:35A-40A. (Abst)
3. American Lung Association. Trends in asthma morbidity and mortality. 2007.
4. Fitzgerald JM, Boulet L-P, McIvor RA, Zimmerman S, Chapman KR. Asthma control in Canada remains suboptimal: The reality of asthma control (TRAC) study. Can Respir J 2006;13:253-9.
5. Weiss KB, Sullivan SD, Lyttle CS. Trends in the cost of illness for asthma in the United States, 1985-1994. J Allergy Clin Immun 2000;106:493-9.
6. Weiss KB, Sullivan SD. The health economics of asthma and rhinitis. I. Assessing the economic impact. J Allergy Clin Immun 2001;107:3-8.
7. Beveridge RC, Grunfeld AF, Hodder RV, Verbeek PR, CAEP CTS Asthma Advisory Committee. Guidelines for the emergency management of asthma in adults. CMAJ 1996;155:25-37.
8. Boulet L-P, Becker A, Berube D, Beveridge RC, Ernst P, on behalf of the Canadian Asthma Consensus Group. Canadian Asthma Consensus Report, 1999. CMAJ 1999;161:S1-S61.
9. Lougheed MD, Garvey N, Chapman KR, et al. The Ontario Asthma Regional Variation Study: Emergency department visit rates and the relation to hospitalization rates. Chest 2006;129:909-17.
10. Weber EJ, Silverman RA, Callaham ML, et al. A prospective multicenter study of factors associated with hospital admission among adults with acute asthma. Am J Med 2002;113:371-8.
11. Hankinson JL, Odencrantz JR, Fedan KB. Spirometric reference values from a sample of the general US population. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999;159:179-87.
12. Beveridge R. The Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale: A new and critical element in health care reform. J Emerg Med 1998;16:507-11.
13. Lemeshow S, Hosmer DW Jr. A review of goodness of fit statistics for use in the development of logistic regression models. Am J Epidemiol 1982;115:92-106.
14. Zhang J, Yu KF. What's the relative risk? A method of correcting the odds ratio in cohort studies of common outcomes. JAMA 1998;280:1690-1.
15. Rowe BH, Bota GW, Clark S, Camargo CA Jr., for the MARC Investigators. Comparison of Canadian versus US emergency department visits for acute asthma. Can Respir J 2007;14:331-7.
16. Rowe BH, Villa-Roel C, Sivilottii M, et al. Relapse following emergency department discharge for acute asthma: A prospective multi-center study. Acad Emerg Med 2008;15:709-17.
17. Stieb DM, Beveridge RC, Rowe BH, Walter SD, Judek S. Assessing diagnostic classification in an emergency department: Implications for daily time series studies of air pollution. Am J Epidemiol 1998;148:666-70.
18. Aaron SD, Vandemheen KL, Boulet LP, et al. Overdiagnosis of asthma in obese and nonobese adults. CMAJ 2008;179:1121-31.
19. National Asthma Education Prevention Program (NAEPP). Expert Panel Report 3: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma (EPR-3 2007) NIH Publication. Bethesda, Maryland, USA: Department of Health and Human Services; National Institutes of Health; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Asthma Education and Prevention Program. 2007.
20. Han A, Ospina M, Blitz S, Strome T, Rowe BH. Patients presenting to the emergency department: Use of other health care services and reasons for presentation. Can J Emerg Med 2007;9:428-34.