Hospitalization of children with status asthmaticus: a review.
A review of hospital admissions of patients with status asthmaticus at the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles showed a marked increase in admissions in recent years. Asthma mortality did not increase. Patients tended to be young, boys, and black as compared with patients admitted to a general hospital. Interviews with 100 patients and/or their parents admitted between February and June 1988 indicated that the majority of patients had frequent, severe, and/or disabling symptoms and a significant number were undertreated. Forty-five percent of these patients and 46% of all patients admitted between January 1986 and October 1988 because of status asthmaticus also had sinusitis, otitis, or pneumonitis.
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Department of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, CA 90054.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001249:Asthma / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000639:trends*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000639:trends; D012737:Sex Factors; D013224:Status Asthmaticus / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*