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…
In 2023-2024, there were 28,778 potentially preventable hospitalisations (PPH) due to asthma. (ref 1). This is similar to the year before with 28,238 PPH in 2022-2023, compared to 22,985 in 2021-2022 (a year with pandemic measures), and 32,558 in 2018-2019 before the COVID pandemic. (ref 2) Note: Asthma PPH are all hospitalisations with asthma as…
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…
A population-based study in WA analysing hospital admissions in Perth in 2015-2017 and smoke exposure using a model tracking PM2.5 levels during 1700 bushfires and burn offs found that following exposure to high PM2.5 (12.60 mcg/m3 or higher) there was: – 16% (RR 1.16, 95% CI 1.00 to 1.35) increase in hospital admissions on the…
Asthma hospitalisations 2022 – 2023 (AIHW) In 2022 – 2023, there were 31,107 hospitalisations with asthma as principal diagnosis.(ref 1) This is an increase compared to years affected by COVID-19 restrictions (e.g. about 25,500 in 2021-22) but remains below pre-pandemic level (about 37,000 in 2018-19).(ref 2) Children under 15 accounted for 43% of all asthma…