Worldwide incidence of asthma readmission is up to 40% (ref 1, intro). NSW (ref 1) A retrospective longitudinal study looking at 48,217 asthma hospitalisations in children aged 2-17 years reported that over 1 in 5 children hospitalised for asthma in NSW between 2007 and 2022 were readmitted for asthma within a year, costing an average…
Asthma hospitalisations 2023 – 2024 (AIHW) In 2023 – 2024, there were 31,994 hospitalisations with asthma as principal diagnosis.(ref 1) This is very small increase compared to the previous year (31,107 hospitalisations in 2022-2023), a substantial increase compared to years affected by COVID-19 restrictions (e.g. about 25,500 in 2021-22) but remains below pre-pandemic level (about…
Data collected from AIHW: Ref 1 – asthma hospitalisations: AIHW Principal diagnosis data cubes [Internet]. Separation statistics by principle diagnosis. https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/hospitals/principal-diagnosis-data-cubes/contents/data-cubes => open data cube Separation statistics by principal diagnosis for each year; navigate to tab 5-char PDx counts summary and add Sum of Separations for J45 and J46, tab 5-char PDx counts Data for…
In 2024, Asthma was the 10th leading contributor to the total burden of disease in Australia with a disability-adjusted life years (DALY) rate of 5.35 per 1,000 population (143,782 DALY, crude number), similar to 2023 – After adjustment for age structure, asthma was the 8th leading cause of total burden, with an age-standardised DALY rate…
Ecological study using data from the Census 2021 (self-reported asthma prevalence in 4,6 million aged 0-14) for spatial clustering using statistical area level 2 (SA2, a ‘suburb’ within cities and catchments of rural areas, population around 3000 to 25000) and statistical modelling. The study reported that: (ref 1) – 6.27% overall (average) childhood asthma prevalence…