Provision of inhaled corticosteroids is associated with decrease in hospital admissions in Brazil: A longitudinal nationwide study
Respiratory Medicine Apr 23, 2020
de Menezes MB, Ponte EV, Mingotti CFB, et al. - Researchers analyzed trends of hospital admissions attributable to asthma from 2008 to 2015 as well as assessed their link with trends of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) provision by the government in Brazil. They computed hospital admission rates because of asthma, number of physicians, number of hospital beds, number of individuals that took ICS per 100,000 inhabitants in Brazil as well as in each of its municipalities for each year of the study, using Brazilian Government data. A rise in the number of patients who took ICS/100,000 inhabitants was reported from 2008 to 2015 (943.9–1988.5). A rise in the number of physicians/100,000 inhabitants as well as a decline in the number of hospital beds/100,000 inhabitants was documented in the study period. Findings revealed a reduction in hospital admissions for asthma in the municipalities as well as country levels, from 2008 to 2015, in relation to provision of ICS by the Brazilian Government.
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