Affiliation:
1. The Departments of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles and University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
Abstract
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.
Publisher
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Subject
Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Cited by
4 articles.
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