Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a measure of primary care quality in children: An international comparison ...
ObjectivesTo demonstrate the challenges of interpreting cross-country comparisons of paediatric asthma hospital admission rates as an indicator of primary care quality.MethodsWe used hospital administrative data from >10 million children aged 6–15 years, resident in Austria, England, Finland, Ice...
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ftdatacite:10.25384/sage.c.5533184.v1 2024-09-15T18:13:22+00:00 Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a measure of primary care quality in children: An international comparison ... Lut, Irina Lewis, Kate Wijlaars, Linda Gilbert, Ruth Fitzpatrick, Tiffany Lu, Hong Guttmann, Astrid Goldfield, Sharon Lei, Shaoke Gunnlaugsson, Geir Hrafn Jónsson, Stefán Mechtler, Reli Gissler, Mika Hjern, Anders Hardelid, Pia 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5533184.v1 https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Challenges_of_using_asthma_admission_rates_as_a_measure_of_primary_care_quality_in_children_An_international_comparison/5533184/1 unknown SAGE Journals https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5533184 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 Health and Community Services Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified Collection article 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.5533184.v110.25384/sage.c.5533184 2024-09-02T09:59:37Z ObjectivesTo demonstrate the challenges of interpreting cross-country comparisons of paediatric asthma hospital admission rates as an indicator of primary care quality.MethodsWe used hospital administrative data from >10 million children aged 6–15 years, resident in Austria, England, Finland, Iceland, Ontario (Canada), Sweden or Victoria (Australia) between 2008 and 2015. Asthma hospital admission and emergency department (ED) attendance rates were compared between countries using Poisson regression models, adjusted for age and sex.ResultsHospital admission rates for asthma per 1000 child-years varied eight-fold across jurisdictions. Admission rates were 3.5 times higher when admissions with asthma recorded as any diagnosis were considered, compared with admissions with asthma as the primary diagnosis. Iceland had the lowest asthma admission rates; however, when ED attendance rates were considered, Sweden had the lowest rate of asthma hospital contacts.ConclusionsThe large variations in childhood hospital ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland DataCite |
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Health and Community Services Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified Lut, Irina Lewis, Kate Wijlaars, Linda Gilbert, Ruth Fitzpatrick, Tiffany Lu, Hong Guttmann, Astrid Goldfield, Sharon Lei, Shaoke Gunnlaugsson, Geir Hrafn Jónsson, Stefán Mechtler, Reli Gissler, Mika Hjern, Anders Hardelid, Pia Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a measure of primary care quality in children: An international comparison ... |
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ObjectivesTo demonstrate the challenges of interpreting cross-country comparisons of paediatric asthma hospital admission rates as an indicator of primary care quality.MethodsWe used hospital administrative data from >10 million children aged 6–15 years, resident in Austria, England, Finland, Iceland, Ontario (Canada), Sweden or Victoria (Australia) between 2008 and 2015. Asthma hospital admission and emergency department (ED) attendance rates were compared between countries using Poisson regression models, adjusted for age and sex.ResultsHospital admission rates for asthma per 1000 child-years varied eight-fold across jurisdictions. Admission rates were 3.5 times higher when admissions with asthma recorded as any diagnosis were considered, compared with admissions with asthma as the primary diagnosis. Iceland had the lowest asthma admission rates; however, when ED attendance rates were considered, Sweden had the lowest rate of asthma hospital contacts.ConclusionsThe large variations in childhood hospital ... |
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Lut, Irina Lewis, Kate Wijlaars, Linda Gilbert, Ruth Fitzpatrick, Tiffany Lu, Hong Guttmann, Astrid Goldfield, Sharon Lei, Shaoke Gunnlaugsson, Geir Hrafn Jónsson, Stefán Mechtler, Reli Gissler, Mika Hjern, Anders Hardelid, Pia |
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Lut, Irina Lewis, Kate Wijlaars, Linda Gilbert, Ruth Fitzpatrick, Tiffany Lu, Hong Guttmann, Astrid Goldfield, Sharon Lei, Shaoke Gunnlaugsson, Geir Hrafn Jónsson, Stefán Mechtler, Reli Gissler, Mika Hjern, Anders Hardelid, Pia |
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Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a measure of primary care quality in children: An international comparison ... |
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Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a measure of primary care quality in children: An international comparison ... |
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Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a measure of primary care quality in children: An international comparison ... |
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Challenges of using asthma admission rates as a measure of primary care quality in children: An international comparison ... |
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