Asthma Readmissions
May 12, 2017
The Question: What’s the impact of discharge medication prescriptions on the readmission of asthmatic children? The Study: The readmission rate of 31,658 children two-to-eighteen years old hospitalized for asthma between 2005-2007 were stratified based on the refill rate of the three medicines the children were prescribed: beta agonists, oral steroids and inhaled steroids. The Results:…