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Race/ethnicity and asthma management among adults presenting to the emergency department
Arvind Venkat1, Kohei Hasegawa2, Jeanne M Basior3
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Abstract:
We investigated whether racial/ethnic disparities exist in asthma management among 1785 adults requiring emergency department (ED) treatment. In this multicentre study, non-Hispanic blacks with increased chronic asthma severity were only as likely (P > 0.05) as non-Hispanic whites or Hispanics to utilize controller medications or see asthma specialists before ED presentation and to be prescribed recommended inhaled corticosteroids at ED discharge. Improved ED education on evidence-based chronic disease management is needed to address continuing race/ethnicity-based asthma disparities.
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