Continuity of primary care and avoidable hospitalization in a young population with asthma: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Existing evidence regarding the impact of continuity of care (COC) in asthma patients is limited, and its quality is low to moderate. This study aimed to investigate associations between relational COC within primary care and asthma-related hospitalizations in children using a robust methodology. This study is a population-based cohort study that utilized a national claims database in South Korea. The study comprised 136,296 individuals under 20 years old who were newly diagnosed with asthma between 2015 and 2016. These were classified into high, medium, and low continuity groups based on the continuity of care index (COCI). The primary outcome measure was the incidence of asthma-related hospitalizations. During a two-year follow-up period, 10,922 patients (8.01%) were hospitalized: 2520 (

SUBMITTER: Lee IH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11570610 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature