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Asthma Emergency Department Visits

• 9.5% of children (<18 years) and 7.6% of adults (≥18 years) with current asthma visited an emergency room or urgent care center for asthma ≥2 times in the past year. [1]
  
  
• In 2004, the overall rate of asthma emergency department visits in Michigan was 53.5 visits per 10,000. [2]
  
  
• The rate of asthma emergency department visits was almost twice as high in children (age ≤ 14 years) than adults (age ≥ 15 years), 82.5 per 10,000 versus 46.0 per 10,000, respectively. [2]
  
  
• For children (<18 years) continuously enrolled in Medicaid, with full coverage and no other insurance (2005): [3]
• The total number of asthma emergency department visits for was about 16,100.
• The rate was 242.5 per 10,000.
• Rates of asthma emergency department visits are increasing over time among children in Medicaid.
  
  
• For children (<18 years) continuously enrolled in Medicaid, with full coverage and no other insurance, with persistent asthma (2005): [3]
• 33.8% had at least 1 emergency department visit for asthma.
• 29.9% of all outpatient visits for asthma occurred in the emergency department – a measure of reliance on the emergency department for asthma care.
  
  
• For children and adults (ages 5-56 years) with persistent asthma enrolled in a health plan included in the Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium of health plans (http://www.mqic.org/)
• The rate of asthma emergency department visits was 178.33 per 1,000 commercial plan members with asthma. [4]
• The rate of asthma emergency department visits was 268.27 per 1,000 Medicaid plan members with asthma. [4]
• The rate of asthma emergency department visits was 87.33 per 1,000 Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan plan members with asthma. [4]

Sources:

Michigan Asthma Call-Back Survey, 2005. Annual Hospital Statistical Survey, Michigan Department of Community Health, 2005. Data Warehouse, Michigan Department of Community Health, 2005. Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium, Chart Book, 2008.

For more information about emergency department visits for asthma in Michigan, please review:

• Current Annual Report of the Michigan Quality Improvement Consortium Measurements (http://www.mqic.org/measurement.htm)

Last Updated 03/09/2009