The increasing burden of asthma acute care in Singapore: an update on 15-year population-level evidence.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In Singapore, there is currently scarce population-based research informing the recent trends of asthma-related healthcare burdens. In this study, we investigated the past 25-year trends of asthma-related hospitalisations, emergency department (ED) visits and deaths in Singapore and projected the future burdens from 2023 to 2040.

Methods

We acquired annually-measured data from the Singapore Ministry of Health Clinical and National Disease Registry, containing 25-year asthma-related hospitalisation and death rates as well as 15-year ED visit rates. We conducted change-point analysis and generalised linear modelling to identify time intervals with stable trends and estimate asthma-related healthcare utilisation and mortality rates. To project future asthma-related b

SUBMITTER: Lim LHM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10714448 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature