Volume 11 — June 12, 2014
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Defining Emergency Department Asthma Visits for Public Health Surveillance, North Carolina, 2008–2009
Diagnosis Group | Position of Asthma Diagnosis | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6–11 | |
Children (0–17 y), % | ||||||
Diseases of the respiratory system | 100 | 46 | 34 | 30 | 31 | 35 |
Diseases of the heart | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Abdominal pain | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
Injury or poisoning | 0 | 18 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 11 |
All other diagnosis clusters | 0 | 33 | 45 | 50 | 50 | 49 |
Adults (≥18 y), % | ||||||
Diseases of the respiratory system | 100 | 36 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 13 |
Diseases of the heart | 0 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 14 |
Abdominal pain | 0 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 |
Injury or poisoning | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 |
All other diagnosis clusters | 0 | 44 | 55 | 58 | 59 | 58 |
Figure 1. Grouped primary diagnosis by asthma
diagnosis position, North Carolina emergency department visits, 2008–09,
with an asthma diagnosis in any diagnosis position (child visits, N =
100,886; adult visits, N = 249,403).
Procedure Group | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6-11 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Children (0–17 years), % | ||||||
Asthma | 37 | 18 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 |
Cardiac | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
Adults (≥18 years), % | ||||||
Asthma | 21 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Cardiac | 12 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 18 |
Figure 2. Grouped respiratory and cardiac procedures by asthma diagnosis position, North Carolina emergency department visits, 2008–09, with an asthma diagnosis in any diagnosis position and 1 or more procedure codes assigned (child visits, N = 13,125; adult visits, N = 49,265).
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